[August 29, 2017] If I were ever to write about how senior leaders can be winners (or losers), the topic of how a well-articulated strategy can create success would be one of them. While there are many key parts to a strategy (planning, execution, etc.), a strategy that is clear, comprehensive, and well-articulated to those it effects is… Read More »
[August 29, 2017] [Updated] Finally the Internet is back up and I’m slowly reconnecting all my devices with the new modem. Thanks for everyone’s patience. [August 29, 2017] Yesterday afternoon my cable modem gave up the ghost. Now it will be late today before I’m fully operational. At that time I’ll post today’s blog entry entitled “A Well-Articulated… Read More »
[August 28, 2017] I’ve not written about the influx of immigrants into Canada because it never was important enough to make a point about its policies for it to matter much in the study of leadership. The dynamic of immigrant Canadian national policies are considered mature and fair. However, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau threw a wrench into the… Read More »
[August 27, 2017] Occasionally I run across someone who takes a new perspective on things; combining ideas that have been discussed before regarding leadership and how leaders should help educate others. That is the case with Ami Horowitz, documentary filmmaker, who recently released a video on income inequality and combined it with the topics of socialism, Venezuela, and… Read More »
[August 26, 2017] In the run-up to the U.S. presidential election last year, candidate Donald Trump said on several occasions that America should pull out of Afghanistan. Earlier this week, during a prime-time address to the nation, now-president Trump announced a new strategy to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan. Studying how strategy is made and its component parts… Read More »
[August 25, 2017] In Part 1 of this series, I wrote that each of the military services has a boot camp (called by different names) that has one mission; to successfully turn civilians into military members.1 The methods they use are similar and the preparation one should undertake are, therefore, also similar regardless of which branch of the… Read More »
[August 24, 2017] This is a “senior leader” blog and how to improve upon leadership skills necessary for success. However, the most common request I get from readers is how to get ready for military life … specifically enlisted boot camp and the officer basic course. In the past I wrote about the 10 things you should know… Read More »
By guest blogger Maisie Acton [see Biography] [August 23, 2017] Abstract: Being a great leader in today’s world is just not enough. Not only do you have to be great yourself, rather you have develop your team too. Having good leaders is a key to success for any organisation in today’s tough world. The market has become so… Read More »
[August 22, 2017] All accidents in the U.S. military are taken very seriously and large accidents are investigated thoroughly. Safeguards are so advanced that the U.S. Navy has brought ship safety to a new level. Yet collisions between ships, as recently occurred between the USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) and an oil tanker, are rare; often the result… Read More »
[August 21, 2017] It was a gloomy, dark night when we moved into a hide position west of Baghdad from where our unit was to await the approach of a “courier” with suspected nuclear material in his possession. Our mission, hastily assigned, was to intercept the courier and take him and all his possessions into custody. Unfortunately, our… Read More »