[November 24, 2015] Being a leader means many things but one thing that is required for those who desire to be successful is to have a good set of social skills. It doesn’t mean that a successful leader is required to have table manners, a pretty smile, or fashionable clothes; although it certainly helps. That is why I… Read More »
[November 24, 2015] Leadership is certainly not easy, but no one who has taken such a position does so with the intent to do a bad job of it. Poor leadership – that can be described as being ineffective – is also not something that comes about due to a single error or bad decision but from a… Read More »
[November 24, 2015] We’ve seen over the past few weeks the resignation of at least one university president, as well as student class walkouts, protests, and sit-ins at several universities over accusations of the mishandling of racial issues. The uproar at campuses across the United States, we are told, is caused by a lack of attention to student… Read More »
[November 22, 2015] As a new Private in the U.S. Army in West Germany in the mid-1970s, my fellow soldiers and I regularly and passionately discussed the personal deficiencies in our leaders. We saw (at least what we thought we saw) among them inflated egos and careerism. Typical of junior soldiers throughout our history of any military, we… Read More »
[November 20, 2014] When three of my friends and I joined the U.S. Army, we were happy to be away from home and thrilled to finally reach the pinnacle of real men by being real soldiers. After two days of intense basic combat training (emphasis on “combat”) we had second thoughts. My best friend asked us on the… Read More »
[November 19, 2015] The first two parts of this 3-part series proposed that the U.S. military has a leadership problem and it begins with the rejection of its mission to fight the nation’s enemies. The American military has experienced an increase in the overall number of its leaders at all levels since WWII but, I have proposed, it… Read More »
[November 16, 2015] In the first installment of this 3-part series I proposed that the U.S. military has a leadership problem. Irrespective of how we measure leadership or determine its leader effectiveness, it has been accepted that the quality of military leadership today is in decline. For those of us currently in the military or recently retired, this… Read More »
[November 15, 2015] A nation’s best leaders rise to the occasion when their skills are needed during a crisis. Such was the need for French President François Hollande to quickly and clearly establish that he could show strong leadership in uniting France during the latest Islamic terror in Paris and in that, he was successful and more. The… Read More »
[November 13, 2015] The U.S. military has a leadership problem. Evidence for the decline in its leadership capability is more than circumstantial, as some claim, because it shows in a deterioration of confidence our military personnel have in their leaders and the inability of those leaders to adapt to relevant problems. Identifying problems within the military leadership system,… Read More »
[November 12, 2015] If national leaders were asked about what concerns them most – any issue of great import to their country – immigration would certainly be at the top of that list. Western leaders in particular would likely say it is the singular concern they have to address due to its impact on their nation’s security and… Read More »