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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. The result will be agency leadership creating new organizational structures that make innovation a continual process rather than an ad hoc series of heroic efforts. Newell ran the U.S.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

11:59) Giving people trust and autonomy and opening lines of communication as a leader, and how Mark's leadership has evolved. (14:16) So talk a little bit about what you've seen and why you felt called to take on a leadership role. I think that's really a big part of how my leadership has evolved. Now I trust them.

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Herding Cats – Using Lean to Work Together

Steve Blank

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. This will arm you with the tools needed to get them (or their leadership) to agree on the right problem that needs to be solved first.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Leaders They Look Up To

Hearpreneur

I recently learned about the career of General Keith Alexander, a four-star Army general that led DoD agencies during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq when attempted cyber-attacks against the U.S. I appreciate the kind of dedication that takes and the unique leadership level to which General Alexander rose. were on the rise.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

I realize some of what I just said probably doesn't even make sense to nonclinical people, but the work that we do is demanding. And when you run from that, that's happening in one room and then the next room over, you have the demanding parent who's like, well, I'm friends with Marc Benioff and you're not moving fast enough.

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Transcript of Becoming a Great Leader, No Matter What Field You’re In

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch: Leadership is leadership. We talk about his book, Outside the Wire, getting outside your comfort zone to learn the lessons of leadership. He is husband, father, former Army captain who served in Afghanistan. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I visit with Jason Kander. Check it out.

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The Disease President

Reid Hoffman

battle deaths from World War I, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Disease President even threatened to withhold funding from any K-12 school that did not comply with his demands to re-open. In less than six months, U.S. coronavirus deaths have surpassed combined U.S.