[February 4, 2017] During my time in the U.S. Army and since retirement, I’ve had the pleasure to talk with hundreds of students at universities across the United States; those who want to become members of the military. While they are some of the “best of the best,” there is always a piece of advice I give them;… Read More »
[February 3, 2017] Being recently retired from the Army has offered me a number of advantages; most useful among them is the strength of mind – developed over four decades – to navigate most bureaucracies without great aggravation. Bureaucracies serve a useful function in their intended role to efficiently administer rules, regulations, and policies … and they have… Read More »
[February 2, 2017] With the news of the recent firing of acting Attorney General Sally Yates at the U.S. Justice Department, I found it unusual that a career attorney would be so brazen to defy a legal order of President of the United States. Yates would have been far more effective if she had worked inside the DOJ… Read More »
[January 30, 2017] One sure fire way of improving your leadership skills is learning about how great leaders think. How and why they think certain ways is crucial to helping replicate their successes. Unfortunately, this is a particularly difficult task that requires a serious investment in time and study, but it also requires a lot of good luck.… Read More »
By guest blogger Sharon Conwell [See Biography] [January 29, 2017] Having regular and quality content is no longer enough to set you apart from the crowd. To be a leader in an online market place every single post must be perfect, and you need to be considered the authoritative expert in your field. Fortunately, when a blog is… Read More »
[January 28, 2017] I’ve been a baseball fan since I was 6 years old … being mature enough to appreciate the game. There were many professional ball players I liked as a child but my favorite player today is Cal Ripken, Jr. He’s my favorite because he was a great player (now retired) and understood that despite the… Read More »
[January 27, 2017] Many of us measure leadership by the level of popularity of the person. You hear this often about politicians; that those most popular are the greatest (they do need it to be elected). In part that explains the continuous measure of the popularity of politicians, Hollywood actors, and fashion models. In reality, however, popularity is… Read More »
[January 26, 2017] There are a number of military slang phrases and descriptions that are useful in everyday conversation. For example, when we refer to putting everything we’ve got into something, we might say we gave “the whole nine yards.”1 One recent military phrase that plays on humor describes an office-bound staff officer who creates overly complex briefings… Read More »
[January 25, 2017] Learning from leaders is not always ordained to be from good things they do; although leadership is set by example, for good and bad. I’m sure all of us have seen leaders who do things that are not just wrong, but are purposefully wrong. Leaders losing their cool is one example. People get angry … leaders… Read More »
[January 24, 2017] As junior leaders we have our entire team surround us and, of course, talking to them is easy. As senior leaders, however, that is rarely the case and because of vast geographic dispersion, using other means to communicate is a necessity. Yet while many leaders recognize this fact, what they fail to see is that… Read More »