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Tuesday, March 06, 2018

Sheriff Scott Israel Is a Lesson in Failed Leadership

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees
— Michel de Montaigne, born in 1533


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Real leaders take responsibility for everything their people do, and fail to do. Israel said he gave the school resource officer a weapon and training, but that he is not responsible for the officer’s lack of heart to take action.
Seriously, sheriff? Training the spirit to protect is not part of a leader’s job? So you have no responsibility for the performance of your people?
That is a cowardly supposition, and an inaccurate one. If your deputy failed to go to the sound of gunfire to save those children, it is on you. If he was too incompetent to recognize the shooter was still firing inside the building, it is on you, sheriff. Leaders take responsibility.
Servant leaders work to empower their people in order to accomplish the mission. Beyond that, they give their troops the credit in success. But most importantly, if they fail, the true leader stands up and says, “It’s on me.”

It’s pretty clear Israel thought he could use this tragedy to further his career; it’s even more clear he isn’t up to the job he has now.

Q&A recap: Politicians debate rumours, slurs and innuendo


Who is more likely to be bullied at work.
And how they tend to respond.
The classic metaphor - Nero fiddles while Rome burns - has taken on new meaning in Canberra. While politicians exchange bile, the real engine room of government, cabinet's expenditure review committee, is examining ominous material pointing to Australia's future decline unless the economy innovates more. The choice is stark. As Australia's innovation tsar Bill Ferris tells AFR Weekend: "Innovation drives everything across the whole system, so innovation has to be the core gauge; it has to run through all policy settings if you're going to get yourself up the curve." It's not as though Australians are not innovating. From the development of 3D-printed bespoke body parts using a metal compound sourced from rutile mining in Australia, to supplying Ford in the US with special carbon fibre wheels from a new plant in Geelong, and through to high speed ships built by Austal, remarkable examples of home-grown innovation abound.
Politics of innovation difficult but not impossible
 
"Supreme Court sympathetic to Florida man arrested by city officials he criticized": Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that "Supreme Court defends free speech of Florida agitator Fane Lozman in his fight against city."
Alex Daugherty of The Miami Herald reports that "U.S. chief justice calls video of South Florida man's arrest 'pretty chilling.'"
And Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press reports that "In free speech case, justices troubled by Fla. man's arrest."
You can access at this link the transcript of yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Lozman v. Riviera Beach, No. 17-21.
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