In a recent discussion with a cyber ‘expert’, she said she has grown increasingly FATIGUED with the language being used in cybersphere.  She said we should stop using these words in conjunction with cyber – either as prefix of suffix.

• attack
• warrior

When it was launched in 2001, the T50 was the first-ever global ranking of management thinkers. It has been published every two years since. In the intervening decade, the scope of the T50 has broadened to include a range of activities that support its mission of identifying and sharing the best management thinking in the world. That mission is based on three core beliefs: Ideas have the power to change the world Management is essential to human affairs New thinking can create a better future. A friend and mentor, Liz Wiseman, aligns well with T50’s core beliefs. She has shared those ideas with many middle and senior management level leaders in the Navy over the past several years. She’s taken her ” Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter” seminar to the U.S. Navy Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. I’ve distributed her book to dozens of senior leaders in the Information Warfare Community (some have even read the book). I know some of the readers here will agree with me that she belongs among the TOP 50 Thinkers in Management/Leadership today. Many of you voted for her and she has become one of the top ten thought leaders in leadership thinking. Thank you for your consideration.

Some years ago I wrote a personal note to Liz Wiseman, author of MULTIPLIERS.  That note resulted in a job for her at the Naval Postgraduate School teaching the senior leadership seminar about the principles of her theory about Multipliers and Diminishers. The note also resulted in the opportunity for me to rewrite the opening chapter of her best selling book for use in the Middle East.

I also convinced her she belonged on the list of THINKERS50 – the list of leadership thought leaders.  We got her on the list.

A simple personal note did that.  POWERFUL and long lasting.

Think of what your writing might accomplish.  Whom might you help?  Who might help you?

Check him out HERE.

Lambert, Mike [CAPT/USN]. “The Navy’s Cryptologic Community — A Transformational Phoenix?” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 132, no. 10 (Oct. 2005): 74-75. Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 22, no. 1 (Jan. 2006): 32-33.

“Rising from the ashes of decline, the Naval Security Group (the Navy’s cryptologic community) is seeing the benefits of its transformation from a legacy signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection, analysis, and reporting organization to a truly multi-faceted ‘information operations’ organization.”

Admiral Jake Jacoby, “From the Chairman,” Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 22.3 (Jun. 2006): 3, takes issue with some of Lambert’s commentary. Jacoby argues that “[t]he need [for change] can be stated in more positive terms…. The case might be better made by talking about relevance and integration of Navy’s SIGINT and Information Warfare capabilities into the broader mosaic that is absolutely essential to dealing with the very difficult intelligence challenges of today’s war.”