Category Archives: Leadership

Profile: Lord Robert Baden-Powell

By | August 17, 2016

[August 17, 2016]  Great leaders are made, not born.  Leaders have been told this from the time they were young children and those who believe it do well because they are proactive, demonstrate ingenuity, personally bravery, and trustworthiness.  Lord Robert Baden-Powell was a British General and founder of the modern Scouting movement.  His outstanding leadership made him a… Read More »

Leaders, Miscommunication, and a Leader Lesson

By | August 13, 2016

[August 13, 2016]  Politicians provide fertile examples of leaders with communications problems; giving us valuable lessons.  There is no other profession that experiences such a high degree of miscommunication, errors, omissions, and deliberate commissions of the corruption of information than a politician. It is serious business for a leader to talk and write with absolute clarity; to make… Read More »

Hope is Not a Plan

By | August 12, 2016

[August 12, 2016]  I taught at the college level part-time for many years.  It gave me an appreciation for what young adults lack in skills, view as an outlook on life, and in their personal motivations.  The one thing I found common among them was that they consistently lacked a plan for life and rely on “hope” as… Read More »

What We Can Learn from an Army Sergeant

By | August 8, 2016

[August 8, 2016]  One thing that I learned early on in the U.S. Army was to pay close attention to army sergeants.  This applies, certainly, to all military services.  The U.S. Army’s Command Sergeant Major (CSM) is the most senior enlisted rank as noncommissioned officers and one of the most respected.  Senior Flag Officers are advised by senior… Read More »