Image via Wikipedia 1. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to examine my current leadership skills. I will describe and reflect upon a recent curriculum project that I was in charge of at the US Army command and Gen. staff College. I will use a lens of the Bolman and Deal four Frameworks to evaluate […]
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making your own way, following your dream
Image by Getty Images via Daylife http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/jobs/13boss.html?fta=y another story of brave women in business, making their own way, on their own terms. very cool, and…math! inspiring advice i’ve shared with my daughters Related articles by Zemanta Is the iPAD the future of magazine publishing? (matei.org) Flash Slideshow (socialactions.net) NYTimes.com: Polk award for anonymous video of […]
The power of family values and hard work
Image via Wikipedia No Road Map Necessary – http://nyti.ms/aR0cfu there are no one-size-fits-all blueprints only design goals and values and a commitment to live life forward. A wonder example and an inspiration of the infinite adaptability of life-in-action. This is evidence of the need for open socities and equal opportunity. Most importantly, to me, it […]
culture and climate
Image via Wikipedia I thought Hunt did an excellent job of synthesizing the literature on culture and climate in chapter 10. The difference between culture and climate as he articulated it, is a common frame of reference for the Army. We consider culture to be the deep-seated and slowly changing values and norms that we […]
The argument for organizational diversity
Image via Wikipedia the argument for diversity is that when the rate of change is too large to “control” and/or when your system is subject to environmental changes that are non-linear/disruptive, you cannot use a “most efficient” command and control system, because you find the world moving on without you and you have no slack […]
Leadership and baby turtles
Image via Wikipedia Here is a point I want to make about attribution bias and survivor bias, with respect to leadership theory. Attribution bias is when we assign causation to something incorrectly; Survivorship bias is examining the survivors of an event or an era, to discover what they have in common so as to reverse […]
Gelernter on the Internet and mastery
Image by Todd Barnard via Flickr One of my heroes is David Gelernter. He is a professor of computer science at Yale and chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies (New Haven). His research centers on information management, parallel programming, and artificial intelligence. The “tuple spaces” introduced in Nicholas Carriero and Gelernter’s Linda system (1983) are […]
A reflection on meeting management and the use of silence
Image via Wikipedia Manny: I agree that when we feel connected to our purpose that our decisions and actions come naturally and easily and we can find the resources we need to break through challenges. Staying connected in a human way to our sources of strength with an appreciation of our own limits but our […]
Developing organizational vision
Image via Wikipedia Sometimes I think of the building of vision in an organization to be like the game of post office in which each communication transaction more of the idea just a little bit and that what we end up with is considerably different than what we started with. It seems like we need […]
Chaos links of interest
Image via Wikipedia Chaos: Links http://classes.yale.edu/Fractals/ http://math.bu.edu/DYSYS/applets/ http://mathforum.org/library/topics/dynamical_systems/ http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~pmat370/JavaLinks.html Books: Chaos: Making a New Science. Gleick, James. The best book on chaos. It has everything—wonderful storytelling, memorable characters, an exhilarating sense of intellectual adventure, and exceptionally good explanations of the main ideas and why they matter. Read this book! Does God Play Dice?: The Mathematics […]