I am a very happy subscriber to STRATFOR, and I have had the pleasure of having a few conversations with CEO & Founder George Friedman. I am currently reading his book The Next 100 Years, and his focus on the “impersonal forces that shape geopolitics” is exactly the kind of grounded insight I need to [...]
Archive for the ‘Frontline Leadership’ Category
The Craft of Political Forecasting–Get In the Game!
Posted in Christianity, Citizen-Driven Govt, Frontline Leadership, Geopolitics, Media Democratization, Worldview on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Who’s Sweeping Whom?
Posted in Citizen-Driven Govt, Election, Frontline Leadership, Media Democratization, Media Ecology, War of Ideas on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Is 2010 an Extension of 2008?
President Obama in his interview with George Stephanopoulos has said, “The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office.” David Axelrod sounded a similar note in his telephone interview with Mike Allen, stating:
We’re FAMILIAR with the vote that was cast today: Some of the same sentiment [...]
A Fresh Piece of Political Analysis from One Citizen to Another
Posted in Citizen-Driven Govt, Communication, Frontline Leadership, Generations, Media Democratization, Media Ecology on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a little something I wrote called Reconfiguring America from the Grassroots Up.
Are you allowed to end a sentence with a preposition like that? Makes me think of that classic line by Winston Churchill: “That is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.”
Matter of fact, I wrote that piece about [...]
Redskins Season Review and A New Recipe for Culture Change
Posted in Frontline Leadership, Redskins on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Man, was I wrong. I had the Redskins at 11-5 and a real contender this year. What wishful thinking.
But I do think that my major contentions for why the Skins would have a breakout year were sound. Sort of. I said I saw real greatness in Jason Campbell and Jim Zorn. I stand by that, [...]
U2 at FedEx, at USA c2009AD
Posted in Frontline Leadership, War of Ideas, culture on September 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Wow. What a show. What a great crowd. Behind the veil of the music and the political side of U2, there is something very profoundly insightful and culture redirecting continually going on in and through these guys.
What is it that enables a group of four men to stand together for over 30 years and keep [...]
Eye of the Tiger: Entering the Key Stretch of the Redskins Season
Posted in Christianity, Frontline Leadership, Redskins, Sports on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Going into this season, I thought the Giants game would be a barometer of the Redskins offseason preparation and their readiness to contend this year. After the first game, I am confident this team can compete at a high level, but they can also stay mired in a mechanical style of [...]
Don’t Sleep on Jason Campbell Just Yet
Posted in Frontline Leadership, Humility in Practice, Redskins, tagged jason campbell on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Encourage in public, admonish in private. Take the heat as leader, and no matter who criticizes your colleagues, don’t throw them under the bus.
That attitude can be summarized in the term servant leadership. It is definitely leadership, but it is definitely service, too.
Servant leadership is one of the most effective leadership principles I have [...]
Jason Campbell and Breakthrough Leadership
Posted in Christianity, Frontline Leadership, Redskins on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Life is War
I am a Redskins fan. It is part of who I am. Loving sports is also part of who I am. I find sports and athletes’ performances inspiring. I love the window competitive sports provides into humanity and the grind of competitive life.
Life is war.
Because sports is a window [...]
Redskins Season Prediction
Posted in Frontline Leadership, Redskins on September 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
11-5.
What?
This will be a turning point year for these Washington Redskins. I see them entering the playoffs as a strong Wild Card. They win one, if not two playoff games. They finish what they started the first half of last year. They reap what Joe Gibbs began sowing when he came [...]
What Does it Take to Succeed? Ask Chris Bradley.
Posted in Christianity, Economics, Frontline Leadership, Humility in Practice on September 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, Agent Logic was acquired by Informatica, the leading independent data integration company. I have worked at Agent Logic in sales and new market development for over three years. This is very exciting news, an end and a beginning. Agent Logic and Informatica are going to bring something very special to the market in the [...]
