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Talk about absolute professionals--we had an amazing conversation between Ch Boarts and MSgt Dilley defining toxic leadership and what it means. This is a podcast developed by the USAF Chaplain Corps Resource Development Cell (RDC). "The RDC spoke with Mr. Bill DeMarco who is the Air Command and Staff College Chair of Leadership at Air …
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Leaders by design is a concept I have been pondering for about 10 years now. If I were to write a book, It would address this concept. If we can figure out how we want to design our leaders, perhaps we can better fill leadership requirements or voids. Terri Hartwell Easter (T.H. Easter) Consulting found …
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Please visit our website for a complete list of LEDx2.0 speakers and an archive from LEDx1.0: www.ledxau.com or check us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LEDxAU I was first exposed to a TED Conference while at Stanford University in April 2008. I was lucky to see Thomas P.M. Barnett’s talk on rethinking America’s military strategy and I was …
As another class graduates the USAF's Officer Training School and we launch another round of officers into the breach of America's military--I know we are indeed training officers, but I wonder if we are really building leaders. Massive bureaucracies tend to only think of leadership in terms of action--as in...what can we measure? What can …
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I consider myself fortunate—twice a year I get to return to the town of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Walking the streets in Cambridge is always a treat and there is nothing better than grabbing a cappuccino at Nero’s Coffee right across the street from King’s College and just pondering all the historical figures that …
Saw the Stranglers in Cambridge summer 2011...and I've always loved the> song; No More Heroes... and I wonder, are we there? I ponder the hero ... Someone that triumphs over adversity and evil... I'm not so sure about the Stranglers' choice of heroes...Leon Trotsky, Lenny Bruce, Elmyr de Hory, but--Sancho Panza was a pretty cool …
For some strange reason, the letter “C” offers the solution to so many problems. A good while ago, we wrote a piece on solving the issues of crisis, complexity, and confusion through communication, collaboration, and creative thinking. “C” also offers concepts in leadership as well. There is this unhealthy cycle that can develop in leaders …
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January 1989 I arrived at Reese AFB in Lubbock, TX to report for Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT). Traditions run deep in pilot training, and one is the designing of the class patch. I have always enjoyed doodling so I volunteered to draft the patch—another tradition or superstition is the officer that designs the patch usually …
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Those of you who know me know I tend to obsess about vision--perhaps too much? As we change jobs and move positions--I don't know about you, but I tend to look back and take stock in what went right and what could have gone better. I definitely do an internal inventory, but I also look …
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“Live as if you’ll die tomorrow, Learn as if you’ll live forever.” -Mahatma Gandhi Well, that seems like a good rule of thumb. According to the Pew Research Institute, half of adults read fewer than five books per year. And men read thirteen percent fewer books than women. I don’t know if you’re above average …
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