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 Uncategorized on July 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Echoes what I have been saying for years. Of course Bill Lind and I talk alot about the poor health of our nation, and the even worse condition of our leadership. Of course when the American people keep electing cheerleaders with the character of a criminal, what do you expect. “All for one and everyone [...]
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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 Uncategorized, tagged Oil Addiction on July 13, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a post I just made to my good friend and mentor, Chuck Spinney.
I declared, Iraq was the strategically second worse decision we have made. The first was not converting our economy to non-oil dependency beginning in the 1970s when we could make it easier to transition. This is a major threat to our [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
All,
The following essay was written by one of my mentors, COL Mike Wyly USMC (ret.). I was very fortunate to have Mike as one of my teachers in graduate school. He taught Advanced Tactical Thought, which was really how to teach decision making and tactics. He used tactical decision games almost every class. That is [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
By William S. Lind
July 2, 2008
Pat Buchanan’s new book, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, is causing a stir, which is a good thing. Buchanan argues that both World War I and World War II were unnecessary wars; that Britain bears at least as [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
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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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 Uncategorized on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
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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Posted in Uncategorized on June 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
…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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