[July 30, 2017] On a recent Friday morning I had the honor and privilege to attend a U.S. Navy Boot Camp graduation, located about an hour north of Chicago, Illinois. It was a proud day for everyone involved and it made all of us happy for those who made the decision to join the military. But this is… Read More »
[July 29, 2017] This article has been a long time in development. It took me nearly a year to get results back from over 250 soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and coastguard personnel and then “rack and stack” the results on their best advice.1 I asked them a simple question; “If you were to give one piece of advice… Read More »
[July 28, 2017] The United States Marines Corps’ leaders are fond of saying that the foundation for leadership is character, intellect, and integrity. They also make it clear that character is higher (meaning of greater value) than intelligence as a foundation for leaders.1 In doing so they have based their understanding on many of the world’s greatest philosophers… Read More »
[July 27, 2017] Leadership failure has been around since humans began to walk on this Earth but it has also been big in the news recently; anytime one listens to the media, failure is there glaring us in the face. Lately, the focus has been on political leadership failures but for our purposes here we should not ignore… Read More »
[July 26, 2017] Many years ago during a combat deployment, a good friend of mine had the duty to tell a General Officer that he would not use the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a construction project because they were too slow, too expensive, and not good enough. The only problem was that U.S. law required their… Read More »
By guest blogger Diana Clark [see Biography] [July 25, 2017] How to become a good leader of a work team? This is an essential question for those people, who want to have a good coherent and harmonious stuff. Good leaders always think about their followers. The American consultant, George Bradt believes that for this purpose it is necessary… Read More »
[July 24, 2017] An interesting development in the area of leadership growth in the U.S. military occurred last week when a gathering of colonels and navy/coast guard captains was convened to discuss how to more effectively develop leaders. For the uninitiated in military affairs, there has been a wide-ranging dialogue on matters related to the criticality (or not)… Read More »
[July 23, 2017] Nearly 50 years ago, Dr. Laurence J. Peter published a chillingly nasty but satirical book that helped shape in the minds of many what they had observed for so long. The idea was that in any “hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence”1 … and he called it the Peter Principle.… Read More »
[July 22, 2017] From all accounts, the new movie Dunkirk is a blockbuster that will draw crowds from all age groups and geographic areas to see it in local theaters. What makes it popular is something that we can look into to see what we can learn about leaders and what its attractiveness can tell us. My grandmother… Read More »
[July 21, 2017] In the twilight years of senior leaders, they often reflect upon what it was that allowed greater success compared to other leaders who were just as smart, motivated, and talented as they. In each case that leader will tell us it was a lifetime of relationship building that made the difference. Many people have said… Read More »