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Institutionalizing leadership development has been a topic that has taken up a great deal of RAM this past week. There is no doubt that leadership development is at the heart of a leader’s responsibility, but can we honestly institutionalize it? Is it a paradox or a paradoxical situation? The Power of the Paradox In George …
For the past several years I have been reading, researching, and thinking a great deal about the ancients and their unique way of looking at leadership. It’s interesting to realize there is indeed nothing new under the sun. All the great leadership books, thoughts, theories can be traced back to the ancients. Today there is …
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Life is a dance— you know the song: “Life's a dance you learn as you go... Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow Don't worry about what you don't know Life's a dance you learn as you go… That’s cute. Do you believe it? I know dancing is a popular metaphor for life, and I am …
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Empire, leadership development, innovation, creativity, and warfare. Maybe I worry about it too much, but when we look at the history of the world it seems the decline of empire is usually due to a decline in leadership and leadership development. Perhaps a decline in the strong advocacy of stellar leadership and bold ideas and …
“Success no longer goes to the country that develops a new fighting technology first, but rather to the one that better integrates it and adapts its way of fighting …Our response will be to prioritize speed of delivery, continuous adaptation, and frequent modular upgrades. We must not accept cumbersome approval chains, wasteful applications of resources …
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Eisenhower took office at a time of wars both cold and hot. One of his first actions was a complete rethinking of foreign policy. Can we learn from Ike’s example? By J. William DeMarco. Link to published article in Stanford's Hoover Digest: http://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/5776 Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. —Winston …
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"[The] original lyrics were kind of a portrait of a modern day rebel, a free-spirited individualist striding through the world wide-eyed and purposeful. I added the themes of reconciling the boy and man in myself, and the difference between what people are and what others perceive them to be - namely me I guess." -Neil …
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We're all clones All are one and one are all We destroyed the government We're destroying time No more problems on the way -Alice Cooper A version of this post also appears on Cambridge's Judge Business School's Blog The Play-Doh Factory Remember Play-doh? If not, Play-Doh is a children’s modeling clay used for arts and …
I have always been a huge Malcolm Gladwell fan. Sure I have read the cons of his books, but if a book gets you to STOP and think, it would seem that author has indeed done the reader a great service. Malcolm spoke at Catalyst East this year on his new book David and Goliath: …
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“Whatever a man directs, if he knows what he wants and can get it, he will be a good director, whether he directs a chorus, an estate, a city or an army.” -Socrates (Xenophon - Memoirs of Socrates) One of the essential keys to leadership is strategy. Great leaders MUST be strategists first. This is …
