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DeM Banter: Dr Walt is a much smarter man than I....but...really? Not sure I'm buying' Philadelphia Inquirer August 29, 2012 Pg. 18 If you were focused on Hurricane Isaac or the violence in Syria, you might have missed the latest round of threat inflation surrounding China. Last week, the New York Times reported that China …
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View original / inc.com After more than seven years of training CEOs, Jim Schleckser explains what separates the most effective business leaders from their weaker peers. Jim Schleckser has been an entrepreneur for the last 20 years, and for the last seven he's been imparting his leadership acumen to other entrepreneurs as part of the …
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View Original / Fast Company The first thing Tom Kolditz wants you to know about leaders is that most of them didn’t emerge from diapers to direct teams naturally. "If you look at the research done, the qualities leaders were born with, [such as] intelligence and attractiveness, account for 30 percent of leadership," says the retired brigadier …
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“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche DeM Banter: strategy issues? Sad state of affairs with tons of blame well shared...so now, how do we get better, isn't that the …
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By J. William DeMarco In 2007-08 I was fortunate enough to be selected a a National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. An outstanding year spent with some of the foremost personalities in National Security on both the Right and the Left sides of the aisle. While there we were required …
DeM Banter: Excellent points... and views... could we add the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in there as well... as warnings or surprises that were missed? SmallWarsJournal.com August 24, 2012 This Week At War In my Foreign Policy column, I explain why better strategic warning won't by itself make the U.S. and its allies safer. The Defense Intelligence …
View Original / Inc.com Remember when you used to have a period at the beginning of every day to think about your schedule, catch up with friends, maybe knock out a few tasks? It was called home room, and it went away after high school. But many successful people schedule themselves a kind of grown-up …
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blogs.hbr.org / view original DeM Banter: Many thoughts from this short article... Cultural empathy? Or is American arrogance? Is there a place for both? Is there an arrogance at all? Agree on the education piece...but is this a pendulum that swings between the arts and hard sciences? Is it economy based? Things to ponder today... There's a difference …
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Washington Post August 24, 2012 Pg. 13 The new concept of American overseas military operations known as “Air-Sea Battle” has come under scrutiny and criticism. Popular with the Air Force and Navy, it has been construed as an aggressive policy, and some in the Pentagon see it as a way for those two services to …
DeM Banter: Brilliant lady...used much of her work at Hoover and honored to work with her (at much distance) in the Pentagon. Always thought provoking. Washington Post August 23, 2012 Pg. 15 As the United States peers into the abyss beyond the "fiscal cliff," we must come to terms with a sobering reality: Even if …
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