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Brian Williams (Memory and How Time Effects It)
Last week I discussed Brian Williams and the events leading up to his professional predicament and his crisis response to the subsequent public outcry. The public outcry was one of two responses....
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Recommendation “Rationally Speaking Podcast”
I like to sometimes recommend resources that I enjoyed which offer a broader range, more insight, and greater detail than I can possibly cover in 1000 words. More importantly, I like to recommend...
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Ice Station Zebra and the Human Eye
The color green is important here. If you are alive today and watched any kind of television in the last 20 years you’ve seen the green screen of night vision recording: war reporting, “ghost hunters”,...
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Bill O’Reilly (Memory Challenge)
One of the hardest comments for anyone to say when speaking of Bill O’Reilly is “I have no opinion about the guy.” He makes it almost impossible to separate the messenger from the message. Human bias...
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Leadership – Unifying the Theory
In class, leadership seems all so simple. It is in black and white. There are diagrams. One chapter seems to lead logically to another. Like any new practical skill, the theory is not the same as...
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Leadership Programs – The Autopsy
“Cause of death?” “The heart stopped.” If you are a CSI fan, a fan of the spinoffs, forensic or crime documentaries, or any other show or movie of the genre, you’ve probably watched hundreds of hours...
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Chris Hadfield’s Guitar
I, like everyone else, was vastly entertained and totally engaged by Chris Hadfield during his missions assigned to the International Space Station (ISS). It was a great piece of public outreach that I...
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Is the NSA Really Your Biggest Problem?
Why do we fear the NSA? Why do we fear sharks? Why do we fear anything? Here’s some context: Shark attacks in 2014: 72 unprovoked attacks with 3 fatalities.[1] A 2006 Time article stated that more than...
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Why are We Assessing Leadership Roles and Styles?
What is the point of all of it? Millions of dollars are spent each year on personality assessment tests. But, nobody can express a clear reason why. “Two and a half million Americans a year take the...
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I was Interview by Jonathan Pritchard (ALWD)
https://kwwrede.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/alwd-008_-leadership-interview-with.mp3 I had a podcast interview with Jonathan Pritchard over at A Life Well Designed. Jonathan uses design principles to...
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Three Fallacies of Leadership
To paraphrase the old saying, “Leadership is like the weather – everyone talks about it, but no one does anything about it.” People seem to accept leadership, good or bad, as a cosmic fate that simply...
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Maybe I’m just old fashioned…
Maybe I’m just old fashioned… But… If you are a 1/3 owner in a business and you are claiming a tax loss of about $1 billion, the math implies that you had to destroy $3+ billion in corporate value to...
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