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Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) March 28, 2012 Washington Wire By Adam Entous BRASILIA -- The top U.S. military officer raised eyebrows earlier this year with a dire warning to Congress about the consequences of imposing automatic across the board budget cuts on the Pentagon: “We would no longer be a global power.” On Wednesday, Gen. …
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By Victor Davis Hanson, Tribune Media Services, Victor Davis Hanson Posted 03/28/2012 at 09:30 am EST The world was reinvented in the 1970s by soaring oil prices and massive transfers of national wealth. It could be again if the price of petroleum crashes -- a real possibility given the amazing estimates about the new gas …
Edited by Shaun Usher Some time in the 1480s (experts tend to agree with 1483/84, at which point he was approximately 32-years-old) Leonardo da Vinci applied for a job at the court of Ludovico Sforza — then de facto ruler of Milan but not officially its Duke for another few years. Da Vinci did so …
Maxwellian thought combined with DeMarco banter: Bud Wilkinson states, "If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team." Some sports teams seem to embrace an everyone-for-themselves mind set. Not to call out my beloved 49ers here--but prior to this last …
By BRYAN CHAFFIN Writing for the April edition of the Harvard Business Review, biographer Walter Isaacson has penned a piece looking at the “real leadership lessons” of Steve Jobs. Mr. Isaacson, the author of Steve Jobs, used the 6,824 word essay to try and boil down that biography to the most essential and salient aspects …
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by Alan Sockwell and Brad Westveld An interesting pattern begins to emerge when you look at which issues leaders seem to struggle with clearly identifying as areas of weakness or risk within their organization. Independent of culture, geography or industry, the same areas or threats arise again and again. Consider them Blind Spots – those …
TheAtlantic.com March 26, 2012 Congress and the Pentagon want to commission stealthy new bombers at $550 million apiece. But it's not clear why we need so many expensive features. By David Axe When the Obama administration dispatched three B-2 bombers from a Missouri air base on March 19 last year to cross the ocean and …
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By Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters One year into its development, the Air Force's new KC-46 refueling tanker being developed by Boeing Co faces "significant schedule risks" and technical challenges, and is already $900 million over budget, a congressional report found. The Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said the Air Force had limited its …
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Charisma is not a substitute for genuine leadership. These five steps can help you develop, and blend, the two. Leadership charisma and personal charisma are very different things. They both involve the same kinds of personal attributes--the ability to project confidence, the capacity to engage others, skill in articulating ideas, vision, and goals—which may explain …
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Washington Times March 26, 2012 Pg. 1 Arms systems cuts look likely Defense analysts and Capitol Hill insiders are anticipating that automatic federal budget cuts will occur Jan. 1 and force the armed forces to scrap plans for new weapons systems. Washington's polarized political landscape shows no signs of a compromise on taxes and spending …
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