John Baldoni interviewed me recently regarding the acceptance of my leadership model called Adaptive Leader Methodology (ALM) by the U.S. Army (ALM is outlined in Chapter 3 of my book Raising the Bar as Adaptive Course Model ACM (U.S. Army did not like that name)). John is a friend and a leadership consultant, coach, and speaker. [...]
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Posted in Adaptability, Boyd, Leadership, tagged America's dependence on foreign oil, Andrew Bacevich, Chet Richards, Chuck Spinney, Grand Strategy, John Boyd, Leaders of Character, Nation building without end, Oil Addiction on July 17, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I know Andrew Bacevich. He is a great soldier, gave me an extensive interview for my book, Path to Victory when I was writing it. I also knew a couple of his former troop commanders (he commanded the 11th ACR during and after the First Gulf War). He also lost his son in Iraq two [...]
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Posted in Adaptability, Boyd, How to develop adaptability, Leadership, Learning Organizations, tagged adaptive leader methodology, Add new tag, Army, Army training, military education, professional education, Recruiting on July 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I received great and numerous responses from my “Culture of Incompetence” posting. So, I will use it as an excuse to post the first announcement for my next book Military Recruiting: Finding and Preparing Future Soldiers (hit this link to get an overview). Military Recruiting: Finding and Preparing Soldiersis due out in late October. I told Praeger [...]
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I am proud to say that Bill Lind is a close friend of mine. This is one of his best columns, because it provides a great example of how one side in war gains a moral victory. John Boyd stated that the moral side of war is the strongest. In the following passage, Bill points [...]
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Posted in Adaptability, Boyd, How to develop adaptability, Learning Organizations, tagged developing leaders for 4th generation warfare, free play force on force exercises, Manuever Warfare, Military education system, non-commissioned officer professional education system, officer professional military education, Tactical Decision Games on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Along with BG (ret.) James Warner, I was invited by Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University to speak at a round table called “Building Adaptive Leaders.”
Here is a transcript of what I talked about (BG Warner focused on the operational and strategic levels of development, and [...]
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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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Posted in Adaptability, Leadership, Learning Organizations, Uncategorized, tagged Learning Organizations, Add new tag, Strength of Character, Where are the leaders today, Can we solve our fiscal crisis?, Leaders as cheerleaders, Today's politicans ignoring problems on June 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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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Posted in Adaptability, Boyd, How to develop adaptability, Leadership, Learning Organizations, tagged Add new tag, COL John Boyd, Ethics, Great teachers, Integrity, Strength of Character, Truth always hurts on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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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Posted in Adaptability, How to develop adaptability, Learning Organizations, tagged How to teach, free play force on force exercises, Raising the Bar, Developing Adaptability, Adaptive Leaders Course, Adaptive Leaders Methodology, Tactical Decision Games, 360 Degree Assessments, Mentoring on June 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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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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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