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View Original / Victor Davis Hanson Almost daily we read of America’s “waning power” and “inevitable decline,” as observers argue over the consequences of defense cuts and budget crises. Yet much of the new American “leading from behind” strategy is more a matter of choice than of necessity. Apparently, both left-wing critics of U.S. foreign …
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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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DeMarco Banter: Not the norm for the M100Group, but love this playlist...knee is not what it used to be, but great for the gym, mountain biking, stationary...whatever... great list. menshealth.com / view original 1. Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run No man has ever been as adept as The Boss at capturing the feeling of escape in rock …
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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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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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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 …
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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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Original Article / James Jay Carafano The U.S. Armed Forces are in quite a battle these days. They’re caught between a president determined to make substantial cuts in defense investments and a Congress increasingly intolerant with wasteful spending. All this while following a Rube Goldberg set of legislative mandates and having a nation to defend. …
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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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