December 31, 2014] It’s finally done and ready for publication … “The Green Book on Senior Executive Leadership (2014 Edition).” It includes characteristics of senior leaders developed during this year. Just like the 2013 edition, the format is PDF and thus can be downloaded and read at your convenience from this main page or from THE GREEN BOOK… Read More »
[December 13, 2014] Senior leaders of the U.S. military are taught that through the study of war, peace is more likely to be maintained. Leading up to World War II in 1937, the Japanese invaded China and at the city of Nanking massacred many thousands. Americans are generally badly informed of this event and fail to grasp the… Read More »
[December 09, 2014] I’ve been a bit remiss in not providing my professional reading list. As I wrote in a post just a few days ago in My Blog Themes: Top 10, “Professional level reading is a very important ingredient in this effort [to be a great leader].” For that reason, I have two wonderful books that will… Read More »
[December 06, 2014] New readers of theLeaderMaker.com have asked me (via my email account) to summarize the major themes of my blog. Of course, I’m only too happy to help. Hence this post today that lays down some of my personal beliefs on leadership. My blog themes are sometimes eclectic and oft times unusual but never without a… Read More »
[November 28, 2014] A theme in the understanding of leadership is that there are so many variations on its style and quality, that it keeps academics in business simply studying the complexities of the subject. To those of us who want to learn directly from the successes of leaders, we take a more nuanced look at how current… Read More »
[November 14, 2014] Simple philosophical questions that go to the heart of societal needs are often difficult to answer. Difficult to answer, not because we cannot intuit the answer, but because we struggle to explain it in plain and simple terms. Do we need the U.S. Army? I believe the reason the United States needs its Army is… Read More »
[November 10, 2014] At the recommendation of one of the U.S. Army’s most talented colonels, and trusted friend, I just finished reading a book that was hard to put down. I’ll summarize it below, but what surprised me the most is that I’d never heard of the book. Now don’t get me wrong, I haven’t read nearly as… Read More »
[October 20, 2014] My typical “reading list” is about the best book I’ve read this month. What I don’t often talk about are the other books, mostly still good, but don’t reach the level that will go on my recommended list. Today however I list two books that satisfied my reading tastes but for some reason didn’t reach… Read More »
[October 08, 2014] Reading books that make me think – really think – is truly the epitome of quality reading. Marshall Goldsmith writes that traits that made you successful won’t necessarily keep you there or advance you further. I enjoy this type of reasoning and it allows me to keep that reminder of potential failure in the back… Read More »
[September 12, 2014] Lately I’ve been re-reading S.L.A. Marshall’s 1978 book on men in battle. Long ago my copy went missing but my neighbor who was an Air Force veteran loaned me his first edition red-bound book. My neighbor is not only a veteran but as a young man emigrated from Italy. Being in his 80s, he had… Read More »