The Leader – the guy with all the questions.
It’s time to remind ourselves that the most important thing about being a leader is asking questions, not giving answers. Too often the briefs are followed with “Are there any questions?” followed by a 2-second pause and everyone leaping up to …
Transforming The Navy’s Attitude Toward Its People
ABSTRACT
The Navy is in a critical stage of its adolescence. Change is needed from the current congenital business model which only values the input from an elite few, to a more proactive and supportive system honoring the perso…
Hiding Your True Leadership Personality
Whether it is from the Internet, radio, television, magazines, or newspapers, people get their information about exactly who their national leaders are from a myriad of media sources other than actual direct input from the leader concerned (or t…
Vision
Importance of Vision
Having a plan is important, but it is not enough to simply have one. On spending too much time making plans, World War One German Field Marshall Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke famously wrote, “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the fir…
Suicide in the Military
Introduction
Suicide awareness in the Department of Defense (DOD) is not a new issue. For over 30 years the Navy and Marine Corps have tracked and documented suicide rates among Department of the Navy (DON) service members (Stander, Hilton, Kennedy, & Robbins, …
Abstract
Arms out in front of you, palms inward, fingers together, and thumbs outstretched – clasp the non-conformist’s neck so that fingertips touch along the spine and thumbs are parallel over Adam’s apple; apply gentle pressure until noise stops. Metaphorically falling barely short of this, there…
1. In your personal, political, and professional life – run TOWARD the sound of the gunfire.
2. Drive your own career. There are more options than conversations. Find time to talk to and trust the front office with career and leadership advice; both success and failure are contagious. Find a men…
Domestic Violence in the Military’s Mind
In Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, first published in 1651, he took the view that human beings are brutes and animals at the core. He argued that it was only through the enforcement of societal norms and laws that human instincts could be…
Those of us in The Club know that the intrinsic nobility of service to our country is its own reward. But before we get too high on ourselves, lets look at where we are and where we came from. The military of the past was intractably woven into the, now cliché, American Fabric. Wartime drafts a…
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