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LearntoLead.net
Dedicated to educating a network of intelligence professionals who Think and Live Leadership.
"Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other. "
John F. Kennedy to the Dallas Citizen's Council, 22 Nov. 1963.
The Course: Leadership for Intelligence Professionals
This site is maintained to encourage and support Leadership Education for Intelligence Professionals and other related national security professionals. It provides course materials for "Leadership for Intelligence Professionals" for the free use of educators and as resource materials for the use of organizational training departments or individuals pursuing their own personal professional leadership development.
-These course materials have been taught successfully for over 15 years, gaining wide student acceptance and official endorsement as meeting the leadership requirements for promotion as a career intelligence professional.
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Intelligence Leadership in the News
A New Year's Resolution for Leaders
In an interview Judge Judy recently said that on her shows "I say it many ways...It's your life, live it well." That is an excellent New Year's resolution for any Leader.
Source: Interview with Rita Braver on Sunday Morning, CBS TV of January 8, 2012.
To read what "living well" means in the context of Leadership, go here ___ and scroll down and read the sections of "Personal Values = Virtue Ethics" and "Leadership Values = Duty Ethics" discussion of the "well-lived life" in order to reinforce your New Year's resolution.
Who Said that You Have to Be in a Leadership Position to Be an Influential Leader?
Analysts can certainly Lead an organization and even a nation. For example, George Kennan:
George Kennan’s thought suffused American foreign policy on both sides of the intellectual and ideological dividing lines for nearly half a century. Yet the highest position he ever held was ambassador to Moscow for five months in 1952 and to Yugoslavia for two years in the early 1960s. In Washington, he never rose above director of policy planning at the State Department, a position he occupied from 1947 to 1950. Yet his precepts helped shape both the foreign policy of the cold war as well as the arguments of its opponents after he renounced — early on — the application of his maxims.
A brilliant analyst of long-term trends and a singularly gifted prose stylist, Kennan, as a relatively junior Foreign Service officer, served in the entourages of Secretaries of State George C. Marshall and Dean Acheson. His fluency in German and Russian, as well as his knowledge of those countries’ histories and literary traditions, combined with a commanding, if contradictory, personality.
…no other Foreign Service officer ever shaped American foreign policy so decisively or did so much to define the broader public debate over America’s world role.
Source: Henry A. Kissinger, “The Ageof Kennan” in the New York Times Book Review, November 10,2011
If Joe Paterno were a Leader, What Should He Have Done?
A long time ago: See topic “The Leader’s Character” and use the index to find “Prioritizing Your Chosen Values” and read about the tension a Leader faces when deciding between Honesty and Loyalty. Go here____.
When he learned about his subordinate’s actions: See topic “Leadership, Followership and the Staff Officer” and use the index to find “Speaking Up as a Concerned Professional” and “Speaking Up as a Person of Integrity”. Go Here ____..
Source: Author’s personal comments to high school classmates who are PennState Alumni and upset about the crisis in “Happy Valley”.
Are You a Leader or Manager?
Senator John McCain recently gave a speech to the Naval Aviation Tailhook gathering. Among other points he made during his presentation was to emphasize the difference between Leadership and management. He said:
Today, we hear a lot about "management" and not enough about leadership. That worries me. One thing of which I am certain, there is a great difference between managers and leaders. Good managers are plentiful---in fact, our nation graduates over 150,000 MBAs every year. But true leaders are rare. And believe me, there is a difference.
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Leaders inspire people, managers, well, the "manage" people and assets.
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Leaders think about protecting and promoting their people; managers think about protecting their own careers.
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Leaders take charge and accept responsibility;managers often pass the buck to higher authority for fear of making a wrong decision.
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Leaders take risks when necessary; managers are taught to avoid risks whenever possible.
Source: U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings of October 2011.
To read more comparisons of Leaders and managers, go here____
A Leader’s Statement of Recognition and Appreciation
“Our intelligence professionals did some amazing work. I had fifty-fifty confidence that bin Laden was there…” So said President Obama when speaking on May 6, 2011 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky when speaking to the personnel who had supported the SEAL Team Six raid on Abbottabad to kill Osama Bin Laden.
Source: Nicholas Schmidle “Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad” in The New Yorker, August 8, 2011.
To read more about the need for a Leader to show recognition and appreciation of all the people of the organization, not just the stars, go here___ and use the index access and read "Motivating Individuals".
Watch for This Book on Leadership-Get It!
"Robert Gates, United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011, has signed with Knopf to write two books; the first book will be a memoir and is tentatively scheduled for 2013, while the second book will focus on leadership and is expected to be published the following year.
"The second book will focus on Gates's philosophy about leadership, his views about great leaders he has admired, and his thoughts about effective leadership, even in the face of adversity and difficulty. Gates was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report in 2008, and he was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President Obama at his retirement ceremony."
Source: Publishers Clearing House 19 July 2011
For Previous Topics in this blog, go here___. Topics there are:
-A Rare Accolade for the Qualities of a Government Leader.
-The Leader Highlighting the "Collaboration" of the Intelligence "Community".
-Listen, Learn...then Lead.
-A Leader's Selfless Christmas Present to the Workers of the Intelligence Community
-Women Leaders of the Intelligence Community
-Making the Leadership Team Work
-The Coming Challenge for Intelligence Community Leaders.
-Advice for the Members of the DNI's Staff.
-James R. Clapper: A Higher Level of Committment, Ethics and Leadership.
-The Director of National Intelligence: The Power to Lead.
-Inter-Agency Teams and Culture: Today's Leadership Challenge.
-Leaders Focus on People, Managers Focus on Systems.
-When Leaders Fight Over Management, Nobody Wins.
-Leading from a Staff Position.
-Leader Relations in the Intelligence Community.
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