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inc.com November 30th Is boring suddenly good...and inspirational bad? Stanford professor Bob Sutton explains what he's learned from hundreds of conversations with Silicon Valley's brightest stars. For Bob Sutton, leadership is not a set of abstract principles and behaviors but an expression of human comedy and tragedy. The Stanford professor knows the academic research, but …
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Los Angeles Times July 4, 2012 Pg. D4 Book Review The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King -- The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea. By Walter R. Borneman. Little, Brown: 561 pp., $29.99 In his superbly reported new book, "The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King -- The Five-Star Admirals Who Won …
Blooger's Note: Will need to pick up Geoff Smart's book: Leadocracy: Hiring More Great Leaders (Like You) into Government sounds like a must read! Fast Company July 3rd 2012 6:43 AM We don't think of leadership as some set of fuzzy, intangible character qualities that some people are born with and others are not. We …
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Blogger's note: highly contentious, but something I have pondered many times...many good things with the draft, but many bad as well, a ton of 3rd and 4th order effects as well...good and bad...something to think about on the 4th thecable.foreignpolicy.com July 3rd 2012 Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former top commander of international forces in Afghanistan, …
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view original / fastcompany.com July 3rd 2012 6:21 AM Now inscribed on the Library of Congress, James Madison's words are as true today as they were in 1829: “The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.” In forging such a nation, …
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Bloomberg.com July 2, 2012 Bloomberg News Overseeing a series of mandated U.S. budget cuts in the 1980s and 1990s, former White House official Barry Anderson was none too popular with agency officials as he insisted that the reductions be applied uniformly. Anderson recalls a minuscule 0.0013 cut to all domestic programs in 1991 that had …
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Los Angeles Times July 2, 2012 Pg. 13 Is there any organization outside of Hollywood more prey to intellectual fads than the Department of Defense? A decade ago the buzzword around the Pentagon was "transformation." Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld wanted to force radical change to take advantage of information technology. So the individual …
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view original / blogs.hbr.org "A 'no' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." So said Mahatma Gandhi, and we all know how his conviction played out on the world stage. But what is less well known is how this same discipline played out privately with …
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Blogger's note: rebuttal to the 18 June Waltz piece. Boston Globe July 1, 2012 ARE YOU concerned about Tehran's drive for nuclear weapons? Political scientist Kenneth Waltz isn't. A senior research scholar at Columbia University and former president of American Political Science Association, Waltz writes in the new issue of Foreign Affairs that it's time …
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SmallWarsJournal.com June 29, 2012 This Week at War In my Foreign Policy column, I apply CSBA's latest report on coping with defense austerity to the Pentagon's current predicaments. The reality of defense budget "sequestration" -- the threat of an across-the-board 10 percent cut to most of the Pentagon's spending accounts -- is now beginning to …
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