Author Archives: Douglas R. Satterfield
[November 4, 2016] On this date, November 4th in 1979, Iranian “students” stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. This lead to an oil embargo, the holding of American hostages, and to the humiliation of the United States. U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy, his energy strategy, and how he handled the crisis are examples of dangerous outcomes when… Read More »
By guest blogger Jessica Freeman [See Biography] [November 3, 2016] Too much workload can often make us feel overwhelmed and stressed and we all know that there is nothing more important than being productive when working. In order to work well you need to focus both on the work and time management at the same time. The trick… Read More »
[November 2, 2016] Nearly 50 years ago, the U.S. was in the middle of the Vietnam War and experiencing a strengthening antiwar movement. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson met with a group of highly prestigious leaders to ask for their advice on how to unite citizens on the war effort. Their advice was to give more optimistic reports. … Read More »
[November 1, 2016] It was a hot summer day in southern Arkansas when my grandmother decided to teach me about life. It was my turn – at a meager six years of age – to catch, kill, and prepare one of her chickens for our supper that evening. Killing the chicken would be a first for me but… Read More »
[October 31, 2016] Today is Halloween; a secular holiday with popular “scary” themes. But here is something scarier that keeps leaders up at night. There are two regrettable but headline making, leading issues that put senior military leaders in a very bad light. First, over the past several decades we’ve known that the U.S. military system is not… Read More »
[October 30, 2016] In Part 1 of this two-part series on T.E. Lawrence, I wrote about how he recommends fighting alongside Arab troops. But what Lawrence does best is give us his thinking on how to be successful when working with another culture so different from his own British origins. Lawrence gives a good view of this thoughts… Read More »
[October 29, 2016] On occasion I present a leader who is well known through their actions or their writings. My intent is to get into the mind of that person so that those of us who study leadership can better understand the thinking of those who were successful, and even exceptional, in carrying out their leadership duties. Today,… Read More »
[October 28, 2016] One of my themes1 here at theLeaderMaker.com has been that anyone can learn a great deal about leadership through the study of the successes and failures of other leaders. This is best done by doing our darndest to learn about what leaders think and thus how they carry out their responsibilities; for good or for… Read More »
[October 27, 2016] I grew up in the Deep South, rural Louisiana, where we had strict rules about how children were to behave. One hard-and-fast rule in my family was that my brother and I got to watch only one “war show” per week and the one we chose was the television series called Combat! The show was… Read More »
[October 26, 2016] In the early days of World War II, the Allies had many strategically difficult problems to solve. The most pressing and most dangerous if wrong was how to fight the Germans and Japanese (and the Italians) simultaneously and not be stretched too thinly and thus be defeated by either. In the past 100 years, this… Read More »