Produced in conjunction with the AFCEA Educational Foundation's Leadership Forum, the Five Questions series features senior leaders of military, government and industry as they share their philosophy on leadership and the techniques that have worked for them.
Current Episode:
Christopher Michel, managing director of Nautilus Ventures, uses a different -- and unconventional -- word to define leadership, and where it comes from in a leader. Also, Michel outlines three lessons that any good leader should learn when things don't go well.
Past Episodes:
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Lt. Gen. Mark Bowman, Command, Control, Communications and Computers/Cyber, J6 |
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Lt. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins, USAF, Director, DISA. |
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Capt. David Marquet, USN (Ret.). |
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Dave Wennergren, Assistant Deputy Chief Management Officer, Department of Defense |
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Eric Bassel, director, SANS Institute |
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Kevin Green, vice president, defense and intelligence at IBM Federal |
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Brigadier General Kevin J. Nally, director of C4/CIO, USMC |
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Scott Suhy, COO, Greenline Systems, Inc. |
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T. Wood Parker, Vice Chairman, TASC Board of Directors |
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Chris Inglis, NSA Deputy Director |
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Lt. Gen. Peter Cuviello, USA (Ret.), former Army CIO/G6 |
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Chief Cathy Lanier, Chief of Police, Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, D.C. |
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Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minihan, USAF (Ret.), director, National Security Agency and Central Security Service. |
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Gen. Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret.), Chairman of the Board at BAE Systems and former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command |
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Alfred Grasso, president and CEO of the Mitre Corporation. |
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Robert Carey, Chief Information Officer, Department of the Navy. |
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Admiral James Loy, USCG (Ret.), The Cohen Group, Former Commandant, USCG and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. |
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Lt. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sorenson, USA, chief information officer/G-6, Headquarters Department of the Army. |
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Linda Gooden, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's information systems and global services business area. |
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Marlin Forbes, former regional vice president for Verizon Federal's Defense and International Services Division. |
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Vice Admiral Herbert A. Browne, former president and CEO, AFCEA International, and former deputy commander, Space Command. |
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Vice Admiral Harry B. Harris Jr., deputy chief of naval operations for communication networks (OPNAV N6). |
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Paul M. Cofoni, president and chief executive officer for CACI and Chairman of the Board of AFCEA International. |
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Alan A. Malinchak, vice president and chief learning officer of ManTech International Corporation. |
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Deborah H. Alderson, president, Defense Solutions Group, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). |


























