Image via Wikipedia I got back to Kansas City this Sunday two hours after the last game was completed and I missed my girls taking second place in the statewide tournament by a fraction. They lost on penalty kicks, 3-2, after an overtime. It was a great tournament and an exciting championship game played at a […]
Category: leadership
Information technology: integrating IT into Strategic planning
Image by Chris Pirillo via Flickr Your information technology department MUST be part of your strategic planning process for our value can be created and multiplied2 reasons: 1. they have possibilities and enablers that may suggest new ways that your value can be created,d explanded, multplied, leveraged 2. if they don’t know where you are […]
A reflection on entreprenurial spirit and stability operations, and engagement areas in nation-building
Image via Wikipedia Thoughts while TDY: action learning: a discipline/focus on actionable learning (see Lewin, Schein…) Planning: we seek to understand so that we can act Design: we act, iteratively, on the basis of fundamental principles, in order to learn we live life forwards, but understand it looking backwards we build nations and stabilize societies […]
A reflection on educating Army officers in force management
Image via Wikipedia The college in-briefed the new Commander yesterday; From the dialogue emerged his 4 priorities 1. Leader Development (sub-bullets below are not all-inclusive) – Develop and implement ILE 2010 – Identify ILE and captains career course backlog issues related to ARFORGEN 2. Mission Command Center of Excellence (We emphasized LD&E’s contribution of manpower […]
The problem of “Peacegaming”
Image via Wikipedia During one of our staff group brainstorming sessions, we were considering the shortfalls of conventional wargaming when it came to examining/understanding Stability operations, and the transition to them. The conventional wargaming methods didn’t feel right in helping us try to visualize our situation and solve our problem. We weren’t sure that it […]
Stanley Cup vs Superbowl: Peyton’s walk of shame
Image via Wikipedia all the controversy about Manning walking off the field only highlights the difference between hockey and football culture Football is full of “me me me”: TO, Ocho Cinco, trash talking: juvenile Hockey is about the team AND respect for the other teams, all of them, who pushed you beyond what you thought […]
SOTU doublespeak. Sad clown is sad.
Image via Wikipedia In the same breath, Obama chastises Republicans as the party of “No” while simultaneously calling for a spirit of bi-partisanship and an end to acrimony. If he were self aware, he’d see the irony, It is a measure of his disconnectedness that he can make those statements without blinking. Perhaps he is […]
Apple, design thinking, nationbuilding
Image via Wikipedia Mike Roberto discusses Tim Brown’s book on Design Thinking here, and thinks aloud about Apple‘s application of the idea. I am a big fan of his work. The unfocus group’s insights become more important to the extent that the Long Tail phenomenon applies to that market/line of business. We are big fans […]
PC triumphant!
Image via Wikipedia The report finds that PC inhibited our military’s ability to remove this clown from the force, and yet can’t name the devil itself, What’s changed? Nothing, we actually have reinforced PC behavior in this investigation. The U.S. military‘s just-released report into the Fort Hood shootings spends 86 pages detailing various slipups by […]
a war economy as far as the eye can see
Image via Wikipedia I worry about us painting ourselves into a corner. I think we have gone past the tipping point where the military industrial complex lobbyists dominate the political process. What do we make besides war and the tools, supplies, services and movies of war? Related articles by Zemanta Are Progressives Entirely Useless? (lewrockwell.com) […]