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view original / forbes.com DeM Banter: All about the Maverick leader.... seems like a long forgotten breed outside of Hollywood movies...we could sure use more, especially in today's environment... Many of today’s most inspiring businesses were created by maverick leaders who colored outside of lines and thought outside of the box. Sir Richard Branson comes to mind. Mark Cuban. Elon Musk. …
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Forbes.com / View Original DeM Banter: We can get upset, we can argue, we can pout, but in the end... this is the view of the USAF from several different sources. The good news... we have an incredible "greater good" leader at the helm...the bad news...there is a lot of work to do...and a good …
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view original / entrepreneur.com As an entrepreneur, you are responsible for building an effective team and enabling your employees to do their best work. To do that successfully, you need to cultivate empathy, or the ability to imagine yourself in another's shoes. "For leaders in particular, empathy means understanding how you come across to others and how you're perceived …
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DeM Banter: Can you hear the applause? Why are we not hearing more of this debate and dialog? Too complex? There are issues, concepts, strategies that have to be addressed and wrestled with. This is not easy by any stretch, but I don't see it going away anytime soon... do you? Washington Post August 5, …
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DeM Banter: Amen! As I worked on my SDE thesis...my advisor Dr David Mets told me... America won't change until it has a Death Sentence. I really wanted to argue with him, but his 85 years of life experiences trumps mine and in historical hindsight he is right. WWII is a great example, but the …
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DeM Banter: Sound familiar? The bigger the organization or buracracy... the tougher this "nut" is to crack or the harder it is to move the boulder--but what happens if the organization continues on the wrong track? Where do the "smart people" go? Stellar leaders are out there at all levels (not Dr Evil)...we just need to get them on …
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View Original / ROBERT L. POLLOCK George Shultz, the former secretary of state and Treasury says America's current problems are large, and its power in the world is diminished. But the policies for revival are obvious with the right leadership Stanford, Calif. George Shultz has one of the most preposterously impressive résumés in recent American history. …
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view original / inc.com It's easy to rest on success. But so often that can turn a great company into an average company. The Olympics are probably the greatest recurring example of superhuman effort compressed into a single point in time: A lifetime's practice comes down to a single 100-meter dash; four years of training pays off …
View Original / inc.com / Margaret Heffernan DeM Banter: Ms Heffernan's point resonates in government positions in a huge way. How many have been assigned to units that are "walking dead" units? I imagine you could apply this to Federal Government as a whole in many ways as well..."They can't afford the time to think, to …
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View original Who You Are and Whether You Care are Just as Important as What You Do Published on June 19, 2012 by Melanie A. Greenberg, Ph.D. in The Mindful Self-Express The 21st century presents many new challenges for both employees and business leaders. In an interconnected, fast moving world, we need to learn cognitive …
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