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The workshops were well attended and respresented all layers of the community. Photocredit: Mariola Acosta. Visiting Researcher Gender & Climate Change, CIAT/CCAFS
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany --- Cpt. John Arthur, a native of Chesapeake, Va. and currently stationed in Hohenfels, Germany with the 1st Battalion 4th Infantry Regiment, gives out a fragmentation order to Soldiers at the Grafenwoehr Training Area during the third day of the U.S. Army Europe Best Junior Officer Competition. The Best Junior Officer Competition is a training event meant to challenge and refine competitors’ leadership and cognitive decision-making skills in high-intensity competition and is a training event unique to the U.S. Army in Europe. The competition runs from July 23-27, 2012. The competitors, company-grade officers ranking from 2nd Lt. to Capt., represent Army units throughout Europe and have already distinguished themselves amongst their peers and exemplify the profession of arms. The competition brings these up-and-coming young leaders together for five days of physically and mentally challenging training, all for the chance to be named U.S. Army Europe’s “Best Junior Officer” for 2012. Challenges include pistol and rifle qualifications, multiple foot marches, and various situational training exercises to test their intellect and instincts as leaders.The knowledge, skill-sets and leadership traits honed at this competition will help prepare the young leaders involved to excel when the time comes to lead Soldiers in a deployed environment. For more information or to see photos and video from the competition go to the U.S. Army Europe web site www.eur.army.mil/BestOfficer. (U.S. Army Europe photo by Spc. Joshua E. Leonard)
As we close in on the one-year mark in Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine, strategists and policymakers around the world are assessing the war to date, and what can be done to end the conflict. In considering how best to support Ukraine, many insights and lessons can be gleaned from previous strategic decisionmaking around national security challenges and great power conflict.
In “Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama,” top National Security Council experts who advised President Bush provide a critical assessment of the foreign policy legacy the Bush administration passed to President Obama. The book includes 30 newly declassified Transition Memoranda alongside a postscript from key administration officials at the time. As the Biden administration advances its national security strategy, this book offers a unique glimpse into how a previous administration managed a similar array of threats—including from China, Russia, Iran, and the Middle East—that continue to pose challenges to U.S. foreign policy today.
On February 24, the Brookings Institution Press and Foreign Policy at Brookings hosted 66th Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Stephen Hadley, and Brookings Senior Fellow Fiona Hill in conversation with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius to reflect on how the U.S. can be better prepared to meet the defining challenges of this decade. The speakers assessed the history of bilateral U.S.-Russia relations and U.S. policy toward Russia going forward before taking audience questions.
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Brig. Gen. John W. Heltzel, director of the Kentucky Department of Emergency Management
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Workshop group part of project COBAM. Lukolela, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR
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GRAFENWOEHR, Germany ---1st Lt. Joshua Herrington, a native of Colorado Springs, Col., and currently stationed in Kaiserslautern, Germany with 10th Army Air Missile Defense Command, leads a physical readiness training session at the 7th Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy on Grafenwoehr Training Area during the fourth day of the U.S. Army Europe Best Junior Officer Competition. The Best Junior Officer Competition is a training event meant to challenge and refine competitors’ leadership and cognitive decision-making skills in high-intensity competition and is a training event unique to the U.S. Army in Europe. The competition runs from July 23-27, 2012. The competitors, company-grade officers ranking from 2nd Lt. to Capt., represent Army units throughout Europe and have already distinguished themselves amongst their peers and exemplify the profession of arms. The competition brings these up-and-coming young leaders together for five days of physically and mentally challenging training, all for the chance to be named U.S. Army Europe’s “Best Junior Officer” for 2012. Challenges include pistol and rifle qualifications, multiple foot marches, and various situational training exercises to test their intellect and instincts as leaders.The knowledge, skill-sets and leadership traits honed at this competition will help prepare the young leaders involved to excel when the time comes to lead Soldiers in a deployed environment. For more information or to see photos and video from the competition go to the U.S. Army Europe web site www.eur.army.mil/BestOfficer. (U.S. Army Europe photo by Spc. Joshua E. Leonard)
Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep It From Happening to You
Authors: Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead & Andrew Campbell Web-Ready Jacket Image 72dpi
Publication Date: February 2009
Description: Why do smart and experienced leaders make flawed, even catastrophic, decisions? Why do people keep believing they have made the right choice, even with the disastrous result staring them in the face? And how can you be sure you're making the right decision--without the benefit of hindsight?
Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, and Andrew Campbell show how the usually beneficial processes of the human mind can become traps when we face big decisions. The authors show how the shortcuts our brains have learned to take over millennia of evolution can derail our decision making. Think Again offers a powerful model for making better decisions, describing the key red flags to watch for and detailing the decision-making safeguards we need.
Using examples from business, politics, and history, Think Again deconstructs bad decisions, as they unfolded in real time, to show how you can avoid the same fate.
Author Bios: Sydney Finkelstein is a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and regularly lectures on leadership and why leaders fail.
Jo Whitehead and Andrew Campbell direct the Strategic Management Center at Ashridge Business School.
Other works by these authors:
Why Smart Executives Fail
Strategic Leadership
Breakout Strategy
HBR Articles
Contact: publicity@hbr.org
Part of the Question of the Moment bulletin board set, “Would You Rather Dance with Your Parents or Spill Your Entire Lunch on Yourself in Front of the Whole School?”
Women add whether certain activities are 'male' or 'female' activities. Photocredit: Mariola Acosta. Visiting Researcher Gender & Climate Change, CIAT/CCAFS
Within the communities the elderly are highly respected for they posses knowledge, that should be combined with scientific knowledge. Photocredit: Mariola Acosta. Visiting Researcher Gender & Climate Change, CIAT/CCAFS
Registration on Day 1. Global Landscapes Forum, Paris, France.
Photo by Pilar Valbuena for CIFOR.
More information on Global Landscapes Forum, please visit landscapes.org
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Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) scientist Elena Mejia talks to some Kichwa women. After CIFOR will meet with the rest of the villagers to inform them of CIFOR's findings, Napo Province, Ecuador.
Photo by Tomas Munita/CIFOR
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Woman sitting cross-legged in the middle of a meditation labyrinth --- Image by © Trinette Reed/Blend Images/Corbis
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For the first time an ecosystem survey with R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen will be conducted in the coastal area of Gabon. Identification and abundance of birds, whales, fish, phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthos will be conducted in the period from 9-23 May. In addition environmental parameters such as temperature, salinity, current, chlorophyll and oxygen will be measured. A reception was help onboard the vessel before the start of the cruise and the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Security, the governor of Port Gentil, and the FAO representative in Central Africa, were among the distinguished guest.
The panelists of ""Decisionmaking - Why You Can't Always Get What You Want" discussing. The DLDwomen conference goes in the fourth round this year and, again, tackles questions of technological, economical, and social relevance. It takes place at beautiful Nymphenburg Palace in Munich on July 15 and 16 2013.
Kids tell us which activities are conducted by which family members. Photocredit: Mariola Acosta. Visiting Researcher Gender & Climate Change, CIAT/CCAFS