Research

Contemplating Followership

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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The Creative Process

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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Discovering Doctrine

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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Operative Reality

Taking a look at the Resource-Doctrine divide and considering its impact on operative decision-making. Do you find yourself trying to balance between your doctrine and the resources you have to accomplish the many missions in your life? Let me know your thoughts.

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