We hear a lot about leadership. There are endless lists describing the leadership styles and skills essential to engage teams and team members for success. The relevancy of inherent versus learned leadership has been hashed and re-hashed. Articles and videos discussing how to improve the top-down relationship between leaders and followers abound. Leadership is a […]
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Revisiting perceived failure lets us gain perspective on the weight of strategic choices. The wif and I went back to a place I have not visited in 20 years. We were invited to the base where I served in honor of 35 years to my unit’s founding. Going back was overwhelming, to say the least.
You won’t even know I’m in a wheelchair. If all interaction is online, you won’t know. And if #education becomes true #distancelearning, with no interpersonal interaction, students won’t know that I’m disabled. What do I think about that? There is good and bad to it, as with everything. This past year I didn’t meet my
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21st-century pre-semester preparation requires effect-driven objectives. What do I want the students to experience, no matter if we are in the classroom or meeting online? What parts of the course can I make easily accessible and present online, so precious classroom time is saved for discussion and in-depth understanding? The debate between what I want
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What are the stages of a Creative Process? Well, that depends on whom you ask. If you’ve read Simon Sinek’s Start with Why, he argues for a three-stage process. As does Richard Rumelt in his work Good Strategy/Bad Strategy and Fevzi Okumus in his paper delineating the Strategy Implementation Framework. I will hopefully argue, at
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First and foremost, doctrine is the means by which we determine heroism. It is how we establish the limits of acceptable and needed behavior given the circumstances we expect our agents to encounter in their everyday work. This is why the military will discuss heroism as someone having gone above and beyond the call of
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