DISQUS

CTOvision: Adm. Stavridis: Think, Read, Write and Publish, and Blog Too

  • lewis shepherd · 1 year ago
    Great post, good point to drive home in the current & upcoming generations of leadership. Come to think of it, an excellent way (as in your case) to identify new leadership.
  • Bob Gourley · 1 year ago
    Thanks Lewis. Another great example that I bet Admiral Stavridis would appreciate is the way you published daily as the chief of innovation at DIA. I saw first hand how your discipline and ability to keep yourself on a daily deadline for publishing helped focus an entire enterprise. That was also a good example of a combination of e-mail push and blog/RSS pull. Next time I'm around a JWICS drop I think I'll see if your stuff is still archived and available there.
    Cheers,
    Bob
  • Michael Tanji · 1 year ago
    I want this to work Bob, but I still think the road is long and rocky. Innovators are still crushed on a regular basis, and as the generation gap widens, we are losing some best and brightest _now_. Is the community going to be relevant in the 10-15 years it'll take to shake off the vestiges of the old regime?
  • ctovision · 1 year ago
    Mike, thanks for the comment. Another friend who I admire and trust was asked a hard question about change and what was needed for the community and he replied "We need a baby boomer extraction program." He was overstating to make a point, of course, boomers like me can and do change, but to your point-- if innovators are being crushed it is unhealthy for the community. I wish I knew the answer. Maybe we need more fearless mellinials in the community. Or maybe we need more folks like Stavridis?
    Cheers,
    Bob
  • Michael Tanji · 1 year ago
    Clearly you're an anomaly (not that there is anything wrong with that). ;-)
    If we don't fix the boomer problem the churn of kids in and out of the system will just get worse. Eventually word will get back to colleges, etc. via the various social networks that you avoid the IC like the plague.
    Simplest bureaucratic fix (is that redundant?) is a bullet on everyone's OER that says "actively supports and participates in collaborative activities" or words to that effect. People respond to what they're rated on.
  • Prof. Jane Miller Chai · 4 months ago
    I am trying to contact Commander Jerry Hendrix and I am hopeful you can help me. Jerry Hendrix was a good friend of Professor Claude A. Buss (Stanford and the NPS). A book is being research on Buss and I wish to talk with Commander Hendrix.