Obama’s General by Douglas MacGregor

Even though many of his political operatives are surely anxious for presidential candidate Obama to shore up his national security credentials by selecting a retired general as his running mate, he should not choose one.  The reason is simple: the ones available simply do not have the requisite moral character and professional acumen.  Today’s June [...]

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Announcement: Workshop in Fall

This entry was posted on 6/28/2008 12:00 AM and is filed under Decision Making, Adaptability, COL John Boyd.
Don Vandergriff and Fred Leland (LESC) Form Training Alliance & Bring Deciding Under Pressure… and Fast to New England
With scientific discoveries and technological changes being developed so rapidly in our society it is easy to forget the importance [...]

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Good Leaders Make Tough Choices…

I continue to contend that we the people are guilty of our own forthcoming catastrophes not only looming on the horizon, but beginning to occur today.
We keep electing the same “cheerleaders.”

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What makes a great teacher?

We all think of Socrates when we ask what makes a great teacher.
A great teacher is a leader, a mentor, someone who encourages life-long learning. A teacher’s objective is to make their students better than they are. A teacher does not have an ego, but has pride in putting out the best students, but pride [...]

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Where do I find the instructors?

I just spent the last four weeks at various locations presenting my “Deciding Under Pressure and Fast” workshop on how to teach adaptability and create learning organizations.  A common question, a subtle point of resistance, is always “We agree with what you are putting us through. It is better than what we do now, but we [...]

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Adaptability and high(er) gasoline prices…

A dramatic event drives organizational or cultural adaptation. While suffering short term pain (sacrifice) usually develops into long term health.
Since the strategic leaders (politicians) refuse to address (well thought out solutions) the looming catastrophic energy crisis, I see the rising gasoline prices as a good thing (for more details dealing with this issue please go to http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/)
Now, [...]

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On War #262: Pyrrhic Victory

William S. Lind
June 9, 2008
Robert Doughty’s Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War, published in 2005, completes his trilogy on the French Army from 1914 to 1940. Both of his other books, The Seeds of Disaster, which is the definitive history of French Army doctrinal development between the wars, and The Breaking [...]

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Setting for a life of mediocrity?

My continuing strand from my post in May on where are our leaders of character?
I have spent my professional life studying adaptive behavior–how changes in ones environment lead to changes in the way leaders and subordinates/followers act, particularly in War. Recently, my studies reach out into the impacts of cultures on adaptability. Our society grows [...]

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On War #261: Not Checking Six

By William S. Lind
As the U.S. remains fixated on two Fourth Generation wars half a world a way, in Iraq and Afghanistan, 4GW is knocking at our back door. The death spiral of the Mexican state appears to be accelerating. To quote just one illustrative bit of evidence, the Cleveland Plain Dealer recently reported that
Seven [...]

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Sorry for the absence…

…But, it is all good. I have been blessed to get to spend the last three weeks with some really good leaders and teachers who want to want to go the extra mile to develop their students into better leaders.
I have spent the last weeks teaching my workshop “Deciding Under Pressure and Fast” on how [...]

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