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Winslow Wheeler and GI Wilson on the radio…

Posted in Boyd, How to develop adaptability, Leadership, Learning Organizations, Strategy, tagged , , , on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Outstanding interview with Winslow Wheeler and COL GI Wilson about America’s Defense Meltdown on the radio yesterday.  This is the moral courage that leaders of character possess to tell unpopular truths with harder to take solutions to fix those problems.
 
Click here: 89.3 KPCC | AirTalk hosted by Larry Mantle
 
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America’s Defense Meltdown
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Army article on Deciding Under Pressure and Fast workshop

Posted in How to develop adaptability, Learning Organizations, tagged , , on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

(Left, clockwise) Lt. Col. Raymond Dickerson, 442nd Signal Battalion, Capt. Kyle Yates, Headquarters A Co. 442nd Signal Battalion, Maurice Canady, 442nd Signal Battalion and Sgt. 1st Class Glenn Rickerson, 442nd Signal Battalion discuss their scenario with facilitator (center) retired Maj. Donald Vandergriff during a training session Aug. 21, 2008 at Fort Gordon, Ga.,
Innovative training methods [...]

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“America’s Defense Meltdown” makes The Washington Monthly’s list of 25 books recommended for President Obama

Posted in Adaptability, Boyd, Leadership, Learning Organizations, Strategy, tagged , , on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“America’s Defense Meltdown”  makes The Washington Monthly’s list of 25 books recommended for President Obama
The latest edition of The Washington Monthly features an article “What Obama Should Read: Twenty-five books the new president should have by his bedside.” James Fallows, author and national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, recommends “America’s Defense Meltdown,” describing the book [...]

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How Obama Can Outfox the Pentagon

Posted in Leadership, Learning Organizations, tagged , , , on January 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Commentary
How Obama Can Outfox the Pentagon
By: Carlton Meyer
Date: 27-01-2009
President Obama is popular because he has yet to change anything. It is
uncertain if he will attempt serious reforms. Although he campaigned on a
message of change, his cabinet appointees are Washington insiders
with a record of maintaining the status quo. On the other hand, if
Obama wants change he [...]

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A Military Reformer Speaks Out…

Posted in Adaptability, Leadership, Learning Organizations, Strategy, tagged , , , , on January 26, 2009 | 10 Comments »

I am honored by John Sayen’s mention of my work.  I am also proud to say I did not know about this oped until it just came out. Yes, John and I are friends, but he is very sparing with his compliments (anyone who has read his introduction to the America’s Defense Meltdown can attest [...]

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Exemption Exception

Posted in Decision Making, Leadership, Learning Organizations, tagged , , , , on January 23, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Though I hate the phrase, “first test” for the Obama Administration, it is important to see how the administration handles the appointment of William Lynn to the Pentagon given the excellent ethical guidelines issued yesterday by the President. This could be an outstanding opportunity to start reform, by denying Mr. Lynn his revolving door into [...]

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President’s remarks on Ethics 21 January 2009

Posted in Leadership, tagged , , on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN WELCOMING SENIOR STAFF AND CABINET SECRETARIES TO THE WHITE HOUSE
1:18 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Please be seated. Still getting used to that whole thing. (Laughter.) Please be seated. Thank you so much. I wanted to get everyone together on the first day to welcome you to the White House.
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President Obama’s speech was outstanding…

Posted in Boyd, Strategy, tagged , , on January 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/obama.politics/index.html
It is here, and in summary, this is why I think so:
First, he said things that have not said, he asked people to sacrifice. He was not being a cheer leader, in that he did not say how great things would get (like Reagan and Bush). He told the truth about how hard it is [...]

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Calling Off the Boston Tea Party

Posted in Leadership, Learning Organizations, tagged , , , , on January 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »

The article below is one of the big reasons that I keep saying that our nation has a leader crisis. We have created a monarchy where position is not based on competency but on who you know (as well as accompanied by an Ivy league resume). You see it with the latest Pentagon selections [...]

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Another War, Another Defeat

Posted in Learning Organizations, Strategy, tagged , , , on January 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Gaza offensive has succeeded in punishing the Palestinians but not in making Israel more secure.
By John J. Mearsheimer
The American Conservative
January 26, 2009 Issue
http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/jan/26/00006/
Israelis and their American supporters claim that Israel learned its lessons well from the disastrous 2006 Lebanon war and has devised a winning strategy for the present war against Hamas. Of course, [...]

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