[March 8, 2017] The short answer is “yes.” Technology does make leadership easier but this answer comes with a significant caveat. There are many components to leadership (communication being one of them) and technology can make a leader’s communications easier to reach a larger and more geographically-dispersed audience. You knew that. What you likely didn’t know is that… Read More »
[March 7, 2017] A recent video posted on the Facebook page of U.S. Senate Democrats includes “words of inspiration” and is a recent example of how leader words can have multiple meanings and multiple interpretations. I’d like to use this opportunity to restate that good leadership means being clear in what is said and every effort is made… Read More »
[March 6, 2017] An informative article was recently published by Caroline Glick, entitled Lessons of the Hamas War.1 What she has done is to articulate the background to Israel’s war with Hamas in the summer of 2014 and interplay between strategy and tactics. I recommend you read it in its entirety because it shows how a government (in… Read More »
[March 5, 2017] There’s a worldwide war on those who manufacture and distribute illicit drugs and that war is mostly hidden from Americans and the most affluent in Western democracies. The war is deadly and how it’s played out is best illustrated in the case of the small country of the Philippines. Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte is the new… Read More »
[March 4, 2017] I’m posting this leadership blog today because I initially didn’t see anything about The Oscars of value for us here at theLeaderMaker.com. But in the aftermath of one of the biggest flubs in the history of the event and subsequent repercussions, I changed my mind. What is now being called the Oscars Envelopegate,1 offers us… Read More »
[March 3, 2017] The use of mankind’s propaganda goes back in time well before written records were kept. Its practical use is undeniable. For those us who study it, we know that the idea of keeping people accurately informed is often blurred with propaganda, depending upon the intent of those wielding power. Architectural propaganda is a variant of… Read More »
[March 2, 2017] Army Vet reflects today on the IRAQI ARMY that has found the NERVE to take on the ISLAMIC STATE terror group. The pursuit of a military victory in Mosul, Iraq has meaning for the free world that it neither appreciates nor wants to understand … perhaps cannot understand, because of its social contradictions. Such is… Read More »
[March 1, 2017] Trust and confidence is a fundamental attribute of leadership. It is the ability to build strong trust and confidence in others that makes a leader and furthermore it is a leader’s credibility that is drawn from those who work in similar professions. That brings me to a story from a good friend of mine who… Read More »
[February 28, 2017] An old axiom in the U.S. military is that to be the best leader possible, one must chose the right people and give them the authority and freedom to do their jobs. Choosing good people is not an easy task but is necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of any organization. “Leadership consists of picking… Read More »
[February 27, 2017] Trick question!! … Sorry but to ask this question implies something that often goes unnoticed. I was once asked this question during an interview to determine the ‘Private of Year’ award. Unfortunately, I got the answer wrong and didn’t win. The right answer? A soldier never needs a haircut because they get one before they… Read More »