The Flaw of Adaptability

By | August 18, 2014

[August 18, 2014] I’ve written in this blog extensively about “adaptability” in leadership (see here, here, and here for some examples). What if adaptability is not up to all the hype we hear about it? Could we be so wrong? Adaptability is critical to senior leadership and of course to all leaders. The flaw of adaptability that sometimes… Read More »

Failing to Deal with Failure

By | August 18, 2014

[August 18, 2014] Leaders intrinsically know that the failure to take steps to overcome failure is a recipe for disaster. Whether that failure is in others or themselves, we all believe there must be a formula to get beyond it. Despite this belief, scientists who study failure have discovered that there is a tendency to avoid doing much… Read More »

There are No Shortcuts to Long-term Success

By | August 17, 2014

[August 17, 2014] A fundamental truth about great leadership is the recognition that everyone must have a clear sense of purpose. Otherwise, it will be difficult to decide what to do and how to do it. With the right purpose, informed decisions are possible. Nearly every person in an organization understands what they do and generally how they… Read More »

Carlson’s Raiders: Makin Island Raid 1942

By | August 17, 2014

[August 17, 2014] Today, many Americans are celebrating the “grooviest event in music history.” The Woodstock Music Festival ended after three days of “peace, love and rock’n’roll in upstate New York.” Very famous musicians played there: Janis Joplin, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, etc. What nearly no one knows about is that on this date in 1942, U.S. Marine… Read More »

Ethnic Cleansing: Iraq Style

By | August 15, 2014

[August 15, 2014] I remember the beautiful Friday afternoon in early May 1999 when Fort Dix, New Jersey got the call that it would be receiving the next day over 300 Albanian refugees from war-torn Kosovo. Over the next month, the U.S. Army base was to receive over 4,000 refugees as part of a nationwide resettlement effort. These… Read More »

We Were Off-Line for a While

By | August 14, 2014

[August 14, 2014] It always seems to happen at a busy time. TheLeaderMaker.com was down for about 8 hours and just returned to normalcy a few minutes ago. My apologies for any inconveniences experienced while we were off-line. This is not the first time but hopefully the last. It looks like my webhost made a few mistakes that… Read More »