The Military Writers Guild

The Military Writers Guild exists to gather writers committed to the development of the profession of arms through the exchange of ideas in the written medium. Through its members, The Guild will encourage an open dialogue from diverse perspectives, thereby supporting the study of military affairs, spread knowledge of the military profession, and increase the assistance available to those writing in the national security space. The Guild will help foster a strong peer ecosystem focused on writing about military affairs through our ability to, “Advocate, Collaborate, and Promote.”

You can try to join HERE.  Make Admiral Stavridis proud !! 

Some Leadership Excellence Criteria for your consideration – Malcolm Baldrige Foundation


VISIONARY LEADERSHIP

  1. Leads the organization in setting and owning organizational vision and values
  2. Guides the creation of strategies, systems, and methods to achieve performance excellence and ensure organizational sustainability
  3. Creates and ensures a supportive and collaborative environment
  4. Shares high performance practices with others
CUSTOMER FOCUSED EXCELLENCE
  1. Builds a customer-focused culture and integrates customer engagement as a strategic concept
  2. Creates a focus on anticipating changing and emerging customer and market requirements
  3. Ensures differentiation from competitors through the development of organizational knowledge, skills, and core competencies 
ORGANIZATIONAL AND PERSONAL LEARNING
  1. Embeds learning, improvement, and innovation throughout their organization
  2. Engages in personal learning seeking input from others
  3. Develops future organizational leaders  
VALUING WORKFORCE MEMBERS AND PARTNERS
  1. Builds and fosters an organizational culture which focuses on workforce engagement, satisfaction, development and well-being
  2. Seeks the views and suggestions of all workforces members
  3. Creates an organizational focus on building internal and external partnerships
AGILITY
  1. Develops and recognizes a capacity for rapid change and for flexibility in operations
  2. Leads and inspires the organization to make transformational changes despite ever-shorter cycle times
FOCUS ON THE FUTURE
  1. Creates a focus on short- and longer-term factors that affect the organization and its future marketplace success
  2. Leads the pursuit of sustained improvement and innovation
  3. Ensures that organizational planning anticipates future marketplace and technological influences
MANAGING FOR INNOVATION
  1. Builds an environment that empowers the workforce to take intelligent risks
  2. Enables innovation to flourish and create value for stakeholders
  3. Inspires and rewards innovative behavior by workforce members
MANAGEMENT BY FACT
  1. Compels the organization to measure performance at all levels to drive high performance
  2. Uses data and analysis in decision making
  3. Challenges the organization to extract larger meaning from data and information
  4. Builds and ensures a workforce that has the knowledge and skills to manage the organization’s operations by fact
SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY  
  1. Acts as a role model for ethical behavior, public responsibility, and actions leading to societal well-being and benefit
  2. Motivates the organization to excel beyond mere compliance with laws and regulations
  3. Drives environmental, social, and economic betterment of the community as a personal and organizational goal
FOCUS ON RESULTS AND CREATING VALUE
  1. Leads the organization to achieve excellent performance results
  2. Defines and drives the organization to exceed stakeholder requirements and achieve stakeholder value
SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE
  1. Sets a systems perspective across the organization so that the organization and all of its parts are viewed as a whole
  2. Causes holistic thinking and cross-functional collaboration

This doesn’t appear to be correct – Can this really be the BIGGEST cyber challenge facing the Navy??


Vice Admiral Jan E. Tighe is reported to have said that the biggest cyber challenge facing the Navy is the protection of sensitive but unclassified (SBU) information that resides outside of its networks

From this ARTICLE.  Do we need a Task Force SBU?? Is someone aware of which organization is tasked with working to resolve the biggest cyber challenge facing the Navy?

Seems like this would be addressed in the DoD’s Risk Management Framework for cyber. 

Your Chance to Influence The Navy’s New Slogan

“HOOK “EM HORNS” has already been used.

Remember how the Navy in the U.S. is moving away from the whole “Global force for good” message, into something a little more, uh, aggressive?

The Navy is looking for a new slogan, and is accepting up to three ideas from anyone who wants in.
The Navy is taking ideas until February 24. Submissions only require a name, phone number, and email address, along with up to three slogans.
Each slogan will begin with “America’s Navy,” followed by some sort of additional phrase.
Navy Times readers will vote on their favorite slogan among a group winnowed down by a panel. Navy leaders will also be given the top ideas.

This will come as a shock to some of you

Photo from Navy Times (reports are that they are no longer smiling)

“All Navy officers, particularly our senior leadership in positions of unique trust and responsibility, must uphold and be held to the highest standards of personal and professional behavior.”

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus in his remarks after censuring three senior Naval officers.  NJP for an enlisted Sailor for similar offenses would have seen fines, reduction in rate, very likely restriction and extra duty. 

New Senior Military Advisor for Cyber

IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. NR-044-15
February 09, 2015


Flag Officer Assignments

The Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert announced today the following assignments:

Rear Adm. (lower half) Sean R. Filipowski, selected for the rank of rear admiral, will be assigned as senior military advisor for cyber, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Washington, District of Columbia.

Filipowski is currently serving as director, Warfare Integration Directorate, N2/N6F, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, District of Columbia.

 U.S. Department of Defense
 Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) 

A Promise From The Past – LONG Forgotten

NETWARCOM Strategic Plan 2006-2010

Execution of the plan: Responsibility for each part of the plan is clearly indicated in the document. Tier I goals are collectively owned by the Commander, Vice Commander, and Deputy Commander (the strategic leadership team).

Tier II goal owners are accountable for accomplishing strategies and removing barriers, identifying resources, and tracking progress. These goal owners may establish a virtual team when needed to determine a Plan of Action and Milestones for their goals, and then monitor progress.

Each month, the strategic leadership team will review progress in achieving goals.

This plan will ultimately be linked to all existing NETWARCOM headquarters functions (Weekly Activity Reporters (WAR), military FITREPS and evaluations, civilian awards, civilian/contractor/resource allocation, etc.).
The entire NETWARCOM Strategic Plan will be reviewed annually.
Stakeholders will be kept informed of progress in goal achievements.

NETWARCOM Strategic Plan 2006-2010 (THE LINK IS DEAD – as are the ideas originally expressed)  Excellent ideas, poor execution.