Winslow is another leader of our nation. He is hard hitting, intelligent and a leader that cares a lot about the declining condition of our nation. Importantly, he also provides solutions to the problems he points out. I am blessed to be his friend and to learn from him over the years. I first met him when [...]
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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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My Father used to tell me, “do every job well, or not at all.” He also lamented on me with, “Once you start something, don’t quit. You don’t have to be the star, just do the best you can and don’t quit until it is over.”
What happened to our culture’s embodied values that included doing all [...]
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Posted in Adaptability, Boyd, How to develop adaptability, Learning Organizations, tagged Manuever Warfare, free play force on force exercises, Tactical Decision Games, Military education system, officer professional military education, non-commissioned officer professional education system, developing leaders for 4th generation warfare 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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I am a very blessed individual.
Why?
Well, I get to teach a course using the Civil War as a foundation to teach leadership at a place I love, for a university I admire (Georgetown), around some fantastic students who are our potential leaders in the political, government, non-profit and corporate world, and I get paid for it.
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This is an outstanding article by my friend LTC Bob Bateman. Bob also gave me my first book opportunity, by printing my chapter “Culture Wars” in his book Digital Wars: View from the Frontline (Presidio Press, 1999). Fortunately for the Army, Bob is a strategist in the Pentagon. Bob’s point is that we need to [...]
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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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