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The AFJAG School is doing some amazing things in terms of educating and innovating around how to teach current and future judge advocate generals.  Wonderful to be a part of the adventure--checkout their show on iTunes--they are talking to tons of interesting leaders. PODCAST LINK is here. From the show notes:  This is part 1, …

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  Something I have been passionate about for some time now is empowering the 2nd string...or checking your bench. Your 1st string players will really (for the most part) take care of themselves--they have risen to the occasion and are on a strong path and a positive trajectory. But what about the second string... who …

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Wish I knew what you were looking for. Might have known what you would find. - Church, Under The Milky Way by J. William DeMarco Can't recall where I came across the phrase, "Heads Down/Pencils Up Leadership," but I believe it was in a podcast… probably Andy Traub. This is something I have continually gone …

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“You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.”  ― Zig Ziglar …so give the people what they want -Ray Davies, The Kinks I am sure all leaders sit through meetings where we ask— "How do we create, assess, mentor, and advise new leaders?"  The …

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I grew up just north of Silicon Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula—it always seemed that innovation was something everyone did.  At 18 years old—I left the area and joined the USAF only to return to the Valley to visit family, talk with friends, two tours at Travis AFB (about an hour from the Valley), …

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par·a·dox ˈparəˌdäks/ noun noun: paradox; plural noun: paradoxes a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory."a potentially serious conflict between quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity known as the information paradox"  I love a good paradox, and in …

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