“A lotus flower grows in mud.”                         

In the 21st century, in order to properly respond, effectively moving forward requires a team of leaders to communicate brutal realities. Improving excellence in clarity of mission is part of creating a dynamic culture that grows. During the infancy of The United States of America Benedict Arnold tried to sell the Army installation at West Point to the British. However, The United States Military Academy has served America for over 200 years.                               THE VANTAGE POINT Perspectives of the presidency 1963-1969  Lyndon Baines Johnson, November 23, 1963 the day after President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated former President Dwight D. Eisenhower drove to The White House to advise President Lyndon Baines Johnson. In Eisenhower’s confidential handwritten note of consideration ‘I bring to your attention … General Andrew Goodpastor, who is now an assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff … highly experienced in many types of organizational machinery that could be valuable to the President obtaining thoroughly studied analyses of important international factors and in making certain that the decisions of the President are carried out even to minute detail. For the abilities and patriotism …     I personally vouch.’                     AN UNSUNG SOLDIER: The Life of Gen. Andrew Goodpastor Robert Jordan After the major 1976 cheating scandal, plus remembering the experiences of Henry Flipper and Benjamin Davis, along with women entering the Academies to restore integrity and trust after the Vietnam War, Andrew Goodpastor was called out of retirement and returned to active duty as Superintendent of The United States Military Academy (1977-1981). Restoring integrity to the core of the United States Army and Armed Forces.                                                             Duty, honor, country, connecting into something greater than oneself, beyond management, 21st century leadership involves character, integrity; trust contributing to the ability of making sound insights from an accumulated body of knowledge. Taking the best of the best and collaboratively making them better, making the sum greater than the whole. Maximizing the strengths of each interdependent work in order to work better together improving form and function in the process. Practicing and pruning one own strengths, as well as the strengths of others to continually increase overall operational excellence is part of communication to encourage collaboration, ongoing education and verifiable research.                                                                                                                                                                                                            Stare decis, respecting the past as we move forward. Thinking fast and slow, the past may influence the future, but it need not control the future. “If you can read thank a teacher,” as the head.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Through organizational clarity of purpose, communication must avoid the horrors of the past, while moving forward improving the future. 21st century emergent leadership involves setting the atmosphere for ongoing education, learning, training and research effectively confronting the future as it arrives.                                                                                                                       Stare decis, respect for the past, while moving forward to a better future.                                                            Thinking fast and slow correctly framing the past influences but need not control the future, Because “if you can read this; thank a teacher.”                                                                                     Outgoing multiyear success at Brockton High School is a success story involving a focus on collective effort. New England’s largest most diverse high school is due to dedication to educational excellence by faculty, students and community. Proving that focusing on literacy, hard work and determination can produce great results. ‘How High Schools Become Exemplary’ by Dr. Ronald Ferguson, passion, leadership and skill matter in producing results.      http://www.nytimes.com2010/09/28/education/28school.html                                     Similarly, THAT USED TO BE US: How America fell behind in the world it invented and how we can come back Friedman and Mandelbaum, set out to discuss problems and solutions for America’s future prosperity. Mentioning how as head of US Army Training and Doctrine Command, Martin Dempsey brought real world experience to upgrade training through a secure ‘Wiki’ encyclopedia format. Having seen and experienced advances in information technology during his tenure as a field commander he harnessed some of those additional advances in upgrading Army Training, through continuous field and expert input junior officers in the field can learn, study and implement how to conduct themselves with societies different than America in fulfilling their mission. Also, realizing that generational gaps exist involving technology and that human beings bring some innate leadership qualities, which can be enhanced and developed. A 21st century Drill Instructor can instruct a recruit  to download a secure computer application to a secure military cellphone in order for the recruit to conduct a training session days later under the guidance of the Drill Instructor for encouraging the innate leadership development of the recruit, as well as simultaneously improving the competence of the other recruits peer-to-peer learning. The evolution of training and learning goes beyond the Armed Forces.                                                                                                                                                                                               University of Texas Chancellor (Magraven) through an interdisciplinary approach looks to integrate the various campuses to investigate, research, respond and help implement real world solution for pressing problems facing the state of Texas, the United States and the world.                                                                                                                                                                                            TEAM OF TEAMS New Rules of engagement for a complex world Stanley McChrystal, Debunk some of the fallacies and limits imposed through rigid adherence to ‘top-down command-and-control’ in a decentralized complex world. The boss does not know everything, nor should he know it all because the Team can go further, as a wise continually improving communicating, learning and improving organization. Moving from command to a command of teams to a Team of Teams involves 21st century leadership.                                                                   McChrystal Team of Teams diagram on page                                                                           Proper framing matters, thinking fast and slow. In the 21st century in order to grow, as stakeholder-servant-leader and the dumbest guy in the room you have to self organize a team of teams better than Joint Special Operations Task Force because there is a time to speak and a time to act.                                                               _________________________________________________                                                                                “Human beings are a resource and not a cost!”                                                                                                                           Peter Drucker                                                                                                                                           Do you lead, manage; supervise 10, 100, 1000? Why are customers divorcing your business? Need to exceed advertising, corporate training, consultant reports, return on capital and internal rates of return? Finally there is a better way. 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