Image via Wikipedia I was thinking about the tension that I see between persistence and reframing. A lot of our formal management and leadership education suggests that we should continue to work our way through and around obstacles along the way in order to get to our objectives. Traditional problem-solving tells us that the path […]
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Youth soccer coaching: picking a good formation for U11 teams
There are many different opinions about what the best formation is for teams that play in a youth under 11 league. Typically these leagues will feature seven field players and the goalie, and the question is what formation will allow us to achieve our goals? A coach would be well served to sort out his […]
Youth soccer coaching: preparing your halftime speech
Image via Wikipedia It should be the goal of every soccer coach to develop players who take personal responsibility for their play and the play of their team throughout the game. In soccer, however, sometimes it is too easy for the adult coach to become the dominant personality on the side of the field and […]
Youth soccer coaching: improving the confidence of your individual players with 1000 touches a day
Image by Getty Images via Daylife There is a tendency in American youth soccer to emphasize winning and losing at all costs and at the earliest ages. This tendency should be combated in order to develop players who have the emotional reselling is to try things out and who have an innate love of the […]
Haitian Women’s national soccer team needs help
Image via Wikipedia This is a request for help to me that came from a close, personal friend of mine, Gaspard D’alexis, that I feel compelled to share with you. Gaspard is the coach of the Omega Soccer Club here in Kansas City, and he is a pure and gentle soul, who has answered the […]
Dog-eat-dog vs cooperation in military acquisition
Image via Wikipedia Some look at acquisition as a purely dog-eat-dog zero sum game. Another perspective coming out of game theory that takes a slightly different approach than the “Always Trust” strategy is documented in a Robert Axelrod‘s “The Evolution of Cooperation” . There are games where the strategy of “Always Trust” or Don’t Play” […]
Managed risks?
Image via Wikipedia The risks now? Risk of being left behind if the fear was an anomaly and there is now the mother of all buying opportunities: my strategy? Continue to trade intraday with no overnight risk, at my usual levels of risk, in large cap US companies, and broad index ETFs, in either direction […]
10 sigma in the news again
Image via Wikipedia Risks are magnified after a historically volatile event like Thursday. The 11.3% intraday move was a 10 sigma event (if you treat the daily range of SPY as a normal Gaussian distribution). Per the excellent blog at http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2009/09/ten_sigma_numerics_and_finance.html, a 10 sigma event can be expected to occur in 1x 10^23 days or […]
complexity in the curriculum
Image via Wikipedia The college in-briefed the new Commander yesterday; From the dialogue emerged his 4 priorities: FYSA. LD&E executed its orientation briefing to LTG Caslen yesterday, and one slide briefly illustrated the following as the CG’s top four priorities: 1. Leader Development (sub-bullets below are not all-inclusive) – Develop and implement ILE 2010 – […]
Systems dynamics meets the Afghan war via Powerpoint
It is becoming a common practice to laugh at that slide, but try on this thought experiment: what if someone made a slide of a zoom in on the surface of a semi-conductor chip? Wouldn’t that seem as incomprehensible and “foolish”? and yet by the slow process of developing knowledge we have become capable of extraordinary […]