[February 13, 2016] Having worked with military and civilian engineers nearly all my life, I can attest to the fact that perfection is one of their most important goals. Getting any calculation wrong can mean the difference in project failure or success … and that means a lot. Once I finished my first year in combat with military… Read More »
[February 12, 2016] It is my belief that what we do echoes across history and that we are, in the final analysis, responsible for our actions. People today and in the future will look to judge us as good or as bad … and that is acceptable and we should offer no excuses for our failings. As another… Read More »
[February 11, 2016] In the style of the American football coach George Allen, turning losers into winners is something truly remarkable to witness. Some leaders have it, others don’t. Here at theLeaderMaker.com, it is a key principle that leadership is learned and therefore all of us have the ability to take our teams across the finish line and… Read More »
[February 9, 2016] These pages could easily be filled with anecdotes of leaders who made a major decision without fully contemplating the requirements to do so. Those failures, and sometimes successes, can be spectacular much like General Armstrong Custer’s decisions and subsequent massacre at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The lesson for leaders is: ready, aim, fire.… Read More »
[February 8, 2016] Winning in professional sports, like most other activities, means having a great team, a well-developed plan, and in-synch leadership. The Denver Broncos won Super Bowl 50 last night where it all came together for them and defense played a dominate role in the outcome. But it also showed the difference in quarterback leadership styles; one… Read More »
[February 8, 2016] If we look back to the time when the American Indian was strong in what is now the United States, they can be found devoting much of daily lives turning their young children into good men and women. Turning boys into men was a particularly important affair since they would become the protectors of the… Read More »
[February 7, 2016] It is rare that anyone of us today would find ourselves in such a situation that physical courage was necessary. We normally think of it in the context of soldiers in wartime or of police and firefighters containing a dangerous situation. And yet, having to willingly decide between death, injury, danger, and pain, many people… Read More »
[February 6, 2016] Teenagers are good at picking up on life’s little lessons. Many of us do this through odd jobs while growing up and some of us were lucky enough to have a job that reinforces positive behaviors. One of my jobs while living in northeast Louisiana was pig pen cleaning on my neighbor’s farm.1 My classmates… Read More »
[February 5, 2016] In the military one of the most stressful of times for soldiers is when a unit gains a new commander. It’s not because the new commander is unknown, although that is part of it, but because not everybody is ready to a leader at the commander level. Studies have shown that leaders make their most… Read More »
[February 4, 2016] Growing up most of my friends and I didn’t see many films because we simply couldn’t get our dads to drive us to the theater (our town didn’t have a movie theater). After my first movie in a theater at age 9 watching the original King Kong (1933), we were not inclined for another similar… Read More »