Leadership

Politics are Amazing

April 29th, 2008

Governmental politics is something that will always amaze me. Watching past elections and of course the current one I have to ask myself why anyone would run - it’s kinda like deciding to go on the television show “Judge Judy”, you know that no matter what, you are going to get your ass handed to you.

After reading “The Commercial Appeal” here in Memphis today I feel as I must make full disclosure before I continue - in a couple letters to the editor about this topic people felt compelled to tell the readers what race of human being they are…

So, not that it should matter, (more…)

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Personal Responsibility In Daily Efforts

December 17th, 2007

Donna, the author of DazzlinDonna, wrote a recent post called, “The Essence of You” which tasks you with trying to answer, “Who do I want to be?”.

Before you can determine the path it really does make sense to answer Donna’s first question of, “Who are you?”. It really should be the starting point of any self improvement endeavor - having a pretty good understanding on where you stand on life’s big stage is important.

Are we even fully qualified to answer the question of who we are? (more…)

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Mixed Messages

October 29th, 2007

Grow up to be an Adult?

We attempt to teach our children, well most of us do, to grow up to be responsible adults. We attempt to choose our words carefully and to help them make sense out of the vast world around them. We don’t teach our children that a couch is actually called a stove, we don’t point to a deer and call it a bear. We understand that every action we (more…)

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Well Said Marine

August 13th, 2007

Nothing I could add, this Marine says it all.

Semper Fi

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CPO Initiation-Transition a Decade Later

August 8th, 2007

My how time flies. I will be recalling the process for the first time from retirement, weird.

It has been about 10 years now that becoming a CPO has moved from an “initiation” to a “transition”. Here is a very brief look at some of the contrasts between then and now.

Now - After hearing of the list each CPO would make attempts to call each selectee and congratulate them.
Then - New slugs would call every CPO in the command to introduce themselves, the CPO would congratulate and share some small bit of advice.

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Kill big furry thing or die

May 14th, 2006

Teamwork first became a necessity back when the caveman realized a mammoth was just too dang big for one guy. A common goal of the cavemen was survival, it was clear, beat the mammoth or starve to death. Starvation being a horrible death, leaders of the time was able to motivate the rank and file to success with simple logic, “kill big furry thing or die”. (more…)

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