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Category Archives: Culture

Decisiveness

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Taking a stand. Is that what individual leadership is really all about?

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Execution and leadership

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

The concept of individual leadership promoted by the modern leadership movement has long focused on specific functions or personal characteristics. For example, we are taught that leaders must generally possess specific traits, ranging from intelligence to passion. Alternatively, we are informed, they must have others that make them singularly capable of performing certain putative leadership functions, such as effecting change. . .

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Mixed message

Thursday, May 29, 2008

I witnessed a peculiar event just the other day. It was a talk given by a foreign expert in a specific professional topic area, hosted by another, local, expert. It was a huge success. But there was one odd thing. . .

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Myth-making

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Yesterday we heard the saga of the author of It’s Our Ship, how he skippered the “best ship in the Navy,” and the conclusions he drew from that experience about leadership. Today, I will regale you with the epic tale of 2nd Lt. Jim Stroup, the best platoon in the Marine Corps, and what he thought then about how and why that platoon transformed so dramatically. . .

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Book Review: Liberal Fascism

Friday, May 16, 2008

Talk about a lighting rod – people instantly become alert and defensive when they hear it. The word, of course, is “fascism” – not “liberal,” although that raises hackles enough among many who suspect it is being directed at them. So, let’s begin by normalizing the word “fascism” a bit. . .

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