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Curse of Knowledge

July 15th, 2007 No Comments

Ron del.icio.us’ed me a link about the Curse of Knowledge. I have to say I have been party to the curse of knowledge on more that one occasion. What I learned is that the curse of knowledge is really a symptom of flawed communication. As the complexity of the information increases so does the [...]

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Leaders Encourage Transparency

July 1st, 2007 1 Comment

Ed Batista has a post about Maj. Gen. Jeff Hammon’s response to an article by Lt. Col. Paul Yingling titled A failure in generalship in the Armed Forces Journal. The article was called “blistering critique of the Army brass,” by Greg Jaffe of the Wall Street Journal.
On June 25, The New Yorker published a [...]

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Leading with a progressive message

August 20th, 2006 No Comments

A leader must always communicate a progressive message. It must provide a clear path of advancement on the goal and mission. A progressive message must be:

Honest
Accurate
Actionable
Focused

Communicating a progressive message does not mean one must ignore problems or failures, a progressive message recognises the problems and failures. In recognizing problems and failures the [...]

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Leadership Training and my personal work of art

July 11th, 2006 No Comments

I have been in a leadership program for about a month now. The session this week is “The Art of Leadership” based on the book by the same name authored by William A. Cohen PhD.. The class has been thought provoking, most provoking was the exercise where I identified the different types of [...]

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