Leadership Risk: Over Promise, Under Deliver

[May 9, 2016]  One of the greatest risks a leader can make is to over promise what they can do.  Everyone has seen it time and again and everyone will experience overpromising leaders throughout their lifetimes.  And, as expected, leaders are drawn to people who desire something better.  The end result is, at best, disappointment or, at worse,… Read More »

Political Leadership: Charles Krauthammer

[May 8, 2016]  Ideas!  Where we get them, how they develop, who argues for what, and how well ideas are argued have always been at the core of the understanding of any society.  No contemporary writer has been more significant and coherent than Charles Krauthammer; political commentator, syndicated columnist, former psychiatrist, confined to a wheelchair, and even loves… Read More »

Judgments: by Army Vet

By | May 7, 2016

[May 7, 2016]  Army Vet reflects today on COWED GENERALS and ADMIRALS. What to know something?  Generals and admirals are amateurs but not in the way common man thinks.  They’re amateurs in fighting new and immerging threats to their nations.  They’re amateurs because they’re soldiers when they should be warriors.  I say, think like a soldier, die like… Read More »

Leaders Tell It Like It Is

[May 5, 2016]  It has been said that militaries win or lose partly on how well their generals lead but also on how well their soldiers follow.  When leaders speak plainly they draw people to them.  Great leaders are brutally honest, often very blunt in their words because they say what’s on their mind.  They will always tell… Read More »

What to Improve in Teenager Leadership (Part 3)

[May 3, 2016]  In Parts 1 and 2 of this three-part series, I argued that teenagers lack leadership skills’ training and proposed that a formalized teenager leadership system be established.  When teenager leadership is overlooked, as it has been historically, the contributions of those young folks are stunted.  By teaching them early in their development, leadership will become… Read More »

What to Improve in Teenager Leadership (Part 2)

[May 2, 2016]  In Part 1 of this three-part series, I argued that teenagers lack training in leadership skills and that holds them back as adults.  Teenager leadership is an overlooked part of education throughout most societies, especially Western nations where it is assumed that leadership can somehow be absorbed through classroom instruction.  I reject this idea and… Read More »