Foreign Affairs May 1, 2012 After six months as chief of staff, I can see clearly that the coming decade will be a vital period of transition for the U.S. Army. The service will have to adjust to three major changes: declining budgets, due to the country's worsened fiscal situation; a shift in emphasis to …
What Happened to Strategy? by david
view original / theleaderlab.org Over the past 50 years, strategy has been examined, factored and reduced to a few simple formulas. In that time, strategy has moved from the realm of senior leaders to the hoards MBAs and consultants. That’s the thrust of the argument Cynthia Montgomery makes in The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs. Montgomery …
Do More in Less Time: Tips From an Efficiency Expert by Howard Greenstein
View Orginal / Howard Greenstein / Jason Womack Jason Womack's book Your Best Just Got Better explains how to keep from being interrupted. It also identifies the perfect time of day to make a difficult call. Author Jason Womack's broad grin and twinkling eyes aren't an act--he has been happy every single time I've met him. After teaching high school for …
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Mentoring: Who benefits? The Jedi or the Padiwan: DeMarco Banter
I am truly blessed to work with some of the most outstanding young minds and leaders in the world... they honestly humble me everyday. The United States Air Force recruits and trains the finest people in the world and to be an “old man” and a “positional” leader is a gift I relish daily. …
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What Doesn’t Motivate Creativity Can Kill It by Steve Kramer, Teresa Amabile
blogs.hbr.org / view original Management is widely viewed as a foe of innovation. The thinking goes that too much management strangles innovation (just let a thousand flowers bloom!). But we have found a much more nuanced picture. You really can manage for innovation, but it starts by knowing what drives creativity in the people who generate and develop the …
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Leadership is Turning Values & Vision into Steps Forward by Strategic Monk
DeMarco Banter: been following Greg (The Strategic Monk) for a good while now, highly recommend at least checking out his awesome website (link below). Great piece here...Definitely want to learn more from him... ______________________________________________ strategicmonk.com / view original Leadership is about turning values and vision into tangible steps forward. Leaders first lead themselves. Your leadership flows out …
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The Paradox of High Potentials by Ron Ashkenas
view original / RON ASHKENAS / blogs.hbr.org To retain high-potential employees, the conventional wisdom is deceptively simple: Identify,develop, and nurture them. By paying special attention to the very best people, they will stay with the firm and eventually emerge as key leaders. But translating this into action is much more difficult. As the former head of executive development at GE used …
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Why do you lead? –DeMarco Banter
By J. William DeMarco ...or... Why do you want to be a leader? Is it the honor, the glory, the respect, the perks? The really great parking? Leading is so multi-dimensional and if you are doing it right, it impacts all aspects of a leader’s life. As a leader, there are not many minutes in …
Enlightened Rebel or “Free Radical?” Fighting C3 w/3Cs –DeMarco Banter
By J. William DeMarco “Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.” — Jon Madonna The more my "maturity" hits me in the face--the more I see the world for all of its C3: Crisis, Complexity, and Confusion. As leaders we …
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The Four Worst Innovation Assassins by Scott Anthony
view original / blogs.hbr.org/ by SCOTT ANTHONY Is there a corporate leader who doesn't extol the virtues of innovation these days? Yet if innovation is so important, why do so many companies have so much trouble with it? The reflexive response is that it is a human capital problem — that is, that most people just don't have …
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