Guest writer USAF Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Robert Kelley Most articles about leadership start with principles, actions and activities that take a group or organization somewhere.  For me leadership begins with me! Who am I? What is my identity? When I was a student at The National War College; Princeton Professor Merion Levy lectured there and said something I have never forgotten – “The ultimate aggression is to know thyself.”  I have struggled with this statement [...]

Many people comment on the lack of leadership abilities in most managers, complaining that many managers do not set good examples, do not empower employees to play a role in decision-making, do not listen to those that work for them, and do not give their employees credit when credit is due. I searched for some statistics to determine how typical this experience is. Do most employees think their managers are less than effective? As I [...]

Many may consider this heresy, but there appears to be a slow, but growing, trend towards open sourcing in the U.S. aerospace industry. For those charged with developing new systems for the military, this may appear to be extraordinarily unwise, impractical, and not something the U.S. Department of Defense should do. Similarly, for those developing state-of-the art systems for commercial use, questions immediately arise about the ownership and protection of key intellectual property (IP) rights. [...]