[March 28, 2017] Army Vet discusses how the Iraqi military is about to crush ISIS in Mosul If I were to be afraid, being in the situation the terrorist fighters are in Mosul would scare the hell out of me … they are about to be crushed by the most experienced and most capable military in the Middle… Read More »
[March 27, 2017] If you’re an American, then you are familiar with the famous 1836 Battle of the Alamo where the Texan defenders refused to surrender to Mexican forces and were destroyed. The rallying cry “Remember the Alamo” helped stir America and the world. Yet there was another battle shortly thereafter the Alamo which also helped boost patriotism… Read More »
[March 26, 2017] I’ve profiled a lot of leaders here in theLeaderMaker.com blog but never have I written about a film director. Leadership can be found in the strangest of places but directing a movie is exactly where it can be seen for what it really is all about. John Ford, the winner of four Academy Awards for… Read More »
[March 25, 2017] I was given command of the worst company in a U.S. Infantry battalion. The company consisted of 179 soldiers, most from the farmlands and small towns around the Northeast United States and recently returned from Operation Desert Storm in 1991.1 The unit’s Battalion Commander came to me one day and asked me to take command… Read More »
[March 24, 2017] A number of years ago a friend retiring from the U.S. Navy as a senior navy Seabee, and having just come from command of Naval Construction Regiment, was offered a job in a large city as its City Engineer. A job perfect for him … but he declined. It turns out the city had a… Read More »
[March 23, 2017] There’s been a lot of name-calling lately; in the media, among politicians, and on the streets. Likely the common reaction today is to call someone a fascist who we disagree with politically. But fascism is not what most people think it is, or its history, and therein lays a problem that leaders should quickly fix.… Read More »
[March 22, 2017] My grandmother was a wise lady who often put the pain in life’s lessons with a vigor that I rarely forgot. While visiting her church one Sunday, my family was introduced to the congregation. Asked to stand, we did so but I went further by bowing and raising my hands up with an ear-to-ear smile. … Read More »
[March 21, 2017] I’ve witnessed plenty of public feuds during my time; the results were often unexpected and distasteful. The most renowned and historic public feud in America (over 200 years ago) was the long and bitter rivalry between politicians Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. It played out famously and culminated in a pistol duel between the two… Read More »
[March 20, 2017] One of my favorite senior leaders in the President George W. Bush administration was Donald Rumsfeld, the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Yet, next to Vice President Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld was the most disliked member at the White House and I found his thinking to be profound and insightful. It is therefore not uncharacteristic of Rumsfeld… Read More »
[March 19, 2017] Three years ago I wrote that the U.S. policy toward North Korea is one of “strategic patience” and that it has been successful if measured pragmatically; it has prevented war.1 Yet, if we measure this U.S. strategy on a scale of decency and morality, it is one of the greatest U.S. leadership failures of the… Read More »