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view original / TAMMY ERICKSON / blogs.hbr.org Bloggers Note: Nice post from HBR below, but something I have been pondering for a long time...and not made any headway on a theory, but Gen X is just now entering the General Officer ranks in the military. What will that do or not do for the DoD? Will we see a …
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View original / Foreign Policy Think of it like an iceberg: The top lies in plain sight, but a lot more hides beneath the surface. In its annual appraisal of the Chinese military published last week, the U.S. Department of Defense seems to be describing an object it finds both familiar and mysterious. The report …
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TheAtlantic.com May 24, 2012 It's fine for a military office to play the role of professor -- but not if that means allowing 'special arrangements' that corrupt intellectual freedom. In 1951, American conservative William F. Buckley published God and Man at Yale. In his book, Buckley slammed Yale's faculty for turning American liberal ideology into …
By J. William DeMarco “I am appalled at the aimlessness of most people’s lives. Fifty percent don’t pay any attention to where they are going, forty percent are undecided and will go in any direction. Only ten percent know what they want and even all of them don’t go toward it.” - Katherine Anne Porter …
entrepreneur.com / view original The record-shattering opening success of The Avengers, which sold more than $200 million in theater tickets in the United States and did about $640 million in business worldwide during opening weekend, is further evidence of an amazing fact: Robert Downey, Jr. not only rules Hollywood, but he's staged an even more impressive turnaround than General …
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view original / leadchangegroup.com Blogger's note: great piece here... much to think about, much to reflect on... “Conscience is that faculty in me which attaches itself to the highest that I know and tells me what the highest I know demands that I do.” Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, May 13. We talk much here …
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view original / smallwarsjournal.com Brigardier Mark Arnold, an Army reservist and CEO of a multinational manufacturing firm, argues for reforms to the military's personnel system in an essay at Armed Forces Journal. There are some familiar refrains here. Today’s best junior officers, those with high talent and a strong calling to service, should become the admirals and generals …
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view original / @jeff_haden / inc.com How to stick out in the minds of your colleagues and customers--no gimmicks required. In order to succeed, almost everyone—whether business owner or employee—must be memorable. While you don't have to be The Most Interesting Man in the World, being known is one of the main goals of marketing, advertising, and personal …
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by J. William DeMarco In the Military we have a rather unique "tradition" of the exit interview. When a commander is about to leave, public affairs or in the case of the Bloody Hundredth, the Wing Historian will give a quick interview regarding accomplishments, plans and vision. It seemed to last no more than five minutes …
Washington Post May 22, 2012 Pg. 14 NATO's Blind Spot A summit in Chicago ignores the thousands dying in Syria. NATO's "victory" in Libya, senior U.S. officials recently wrote, was a "model intervention," a "teachable moment." "The first lesson is that NATO is uniquely positioned to respond quickly and effectively to international crises," the U.S. …
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