2026-01-08 15:44:46
NSA cyber directorate gets new acting leadership
https://therecord.media/nsa-cyber-directorate-new-acting-leadership
NSA cyber directorate gets new acting leadership
https://therecord.media/nsa-cyber-directorate-new-acting-leadership
Not Just Leadership
Honest conversations with guests from Australia, the Pacific and Latin America, looking at the personal side of leadership: identity, values, challenges and growth...
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Arthur Blank addresses regime change, aims for 'leadership' that gets Falcons to 'next level' https://www.nfl.com/news/arthur-blank-addresses-regime-change-aims-for-leadership-that-gets-falcons-to-next-level
Internal memo: Hark, the new AI lab from Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, backed by $100M of his own capital, has hired 30 engineers from Apple, Meta, and others (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/hark-hires-leadership-apple-meta
Palantir Co-Founder Joe Lonsdale Calls For Return To Public Hangings: "Bring Back Masculine Leadership" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/palantir-co-founder-joe-lonsdale-calls-for-return-to-public-hangings-bring-back-masculine-leadership/
The importance of emotional intelligence in leadership for building an effective team
Joanna \'Cwi\k{a}ka{\l}a, Waldemar Gajda, Micha{\l} \'Cwi\k{a}ka{\l}a, Ernest G\'orka, Dariusz Baran, Gabriela Wojak, Piotr Mrzyg{\l}\'od, Maciej Frasunkiewicz, Piotr R\k{e}czajski, Jan Piwnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07004
This is just such a waste of money.
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115343249383566862
House takes step toward extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, overpowering GOP leadership (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/affordable-care-act-subsidies-aca-84607bbaee9bc782d0b685eadba75303
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p164#a260107p164
Sources: Atlas Obscura's co-founders were pushed out of the company amid clashes with CEO Louise Story, who has trimmed staff and changed editorial strategy (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/04/2025/staff-cut…
The US military has always had a massive global advantage against enemies by having bases all over the world. There are bases in every NATO country. This would appear to be a powerful threat to anyone willing to oppose American hegemon, and under normal conditions it would be.
But a lot of those kids serving on those bases joined, not because they love America but, because they needed a ticket out of poverty. They joined for the education, for the money, maybe a bit for the adventure, but, more than anything, to escape the ghetto or podunk backwater that trapped them. Under normal times, this is the best deal they could expect. Maybe they risk their lives, usually they sit around being bored for a few years, and they get to come out with respect and paid college.
But what they are being offered is normal in most of the countries they're stationed in. Free healthcare, cheap or free education, is just what citizens in a lot of countries have come to expect. If the US attacked a NATO country, how many would snap up citizenship if they were given a chance to defect? Bonus points for taking some hardware with you, I'm sure.
But there are some who love their country. There are some patriotic Americans on those bases. Some of them joined specifically to protect the US from all enemies, foreign *and* domestic. Given a chance to fulfill that oath or violate international law, what happens?
There are a good number of former military folks too who now are unsafe in the countries they served, who would do just about anything for citizenship in any EU country and almost any NATO ally. Some of those folks know things they swore an oath to never share, but the country they swore an oath to has betrayed them. Today there's no value in leaking those secrets, but in a war between the US and NATO allies things would be different. Some of those former military folks still believe in their oath, and know exactly who the real enemy is. What happens when there's a real threat of war, when they can use their knowledge to fulfill that oath to protect the US against those domestic threats?
There are a bunch of civilian tech workers who have become targets of the regime. Some of them had clearance, or know about the skeletons in the closet. They know about critical infrastructure, classified systems, all sorts of things that would be extremely valuable to an opponent. But the opponents of the US have always been a frightening *other*, never familiar societies these folks look up to, have visited, have thought about moving to, are trying to escape to.
All I'm saying here is that invading Venezuela and kidnapping the president has a very different calculus than does attacking Greenland. I don't know if Trump or his people are able to understand that, but if he and his folks aren't then I hope European leaders are. But more than that, I hope it never comes down to finding out.
But perhaps we should all think about what we would do to make sure things ended quickly if American leadership ever made such an incredible mistake.
Ex-teammate of new Cowboys LB Logan Wilson praises his leadership, character https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/teammate-new-dallas-cowboys-logan-wilson-praises-leadership-character
Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the agency's long-term cyber capabilities (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/11/lea
Zohran Mamdani announces an
all-female leadership team for his transition
including former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan
https://bsky.app/profile/tempus-fukit.bsky.social/post/3m4wwvdijk22a
Why Brian Flores should be on the Raiders’ head-coaching short list https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/08/why-brian-flores-should-be-on-the-raiders-head-coaching-short-list/
Bernie Sanders crashes Schumer news conference, criticizes Democratic Party leadership (Alexandra Koch/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-crashes-schumer-news-conference-criticizes-democratic-party-leadership
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p128#a251105p128
As several replies have noted, Hilton‘s national leadership is trying to distance themselves from the whole thing — “We welcome everyone! Please don’t come at us!” — and are making it clear this was a local decision.
The problem is that now Hilton is in the spotlight, and if they force the local Hilton to let ICE back in, they’ll put themselves smack in the middle of a national firestorm (like the one Target still hasn’t recovered from…or worse).
It's fascinating that Apple's leadership now doesn't include design or product people https://www.apple.com/leadership/
Permutations in competing growth processes and balls-in-bins
Johannes B\"aumler, Tejas Iyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07104 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…
76 % der Chefs glauben, ihre Teams seien begeistert von KI. Tatsächlich sind es nur 31 %. Wieder zeigt sich: Oben Euphorie, unten Skepsis. Wer KI-Erfolg will, muss Mitarbeitende mitnehmen – durch Schulung, Dialog und Teilhabe, nicht durch PowerPoint-Visionen. #KI #Leadership
Radoslaw Sikorski, vice-premier ministre de Pologne : « Le défi de l’UE consiste Š traduire son poids économique en influence et en leadership mondiaux »
https://www.
EU touts climate leadership while undermining antideforestation rules, critics say https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/eu-touts-climate-leadership-while-undermining-antideforestation-rules-critics-say/
Analysis of managerial behaviors in business management
Ernest G\'orka, Dariusz Baran, Micha{\l} \'Cwi\k{a}ka{\l}a, Gabriela Wojak, Robert Marszczuk, Katarzyna Olszy\'nska, Piotr Mrzyg{\l}\'od, Maciej Frasunkiewicz, Piotr R\k{e}czajski, Kamil Sa{\l}uga, Maciej \'Slusarczyk, Jan Piwnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07047
Adrian Newey to be team principal (!) at Aston Martin
https://www.astonmartinf1.com/en-GB/news/announcement/aston-martin-aramco-announces-changes-to-leadership-structure
Remember folks, no matter what they do – be it committing genocide or raping Palestinian prisoners – Israel are our allies. The US loves Israel no matter what. The UK loves Israel no matter what. Germany loves Israel no matter what. And if you have a problem with any of this, you’re a fucking antisemite and probably Hamas. https://
Bernie Sanders says that Democratic Party leadership are 'way out of touch'
'Let the people in'
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010489789/bernie-sanders…
the future is not a countdown — https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-future-is-not-a-countdown?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social
The takeaway sentence here: “[T]wo-thirds of new data centers built or in development [in the US] since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
This is particularly pertinent here in #Australia, where already, once-plentiful artesian water’s dwindling, nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich runoff chokes waterways with algae and destroys coral reefs, and
Microsoft’s aiding of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians exposes company and its leadership to legal liability
https://glanlaw.org/news/microsofts-aiding-o…
Next: The Alien Enemies Act will permit Trump to imprison & deport US CITIZENS as "threats to national security".
"As predicted... the US has begun its invasion of Venezuela. A US Navy & Air Force air armada started attacking strategic military objectives around the country."
~ Malcolm Nance
https://
"Offshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says"
#FossilFuels #Brazil #Climate
Trump regime renames National Renewable Energy Laboratory to National Laboratory of the Rockies...
https://www.gravityisgone.com/a-collective-wtf-national-renewable-energy-laboratory-gets-a-trumpian-name-change/
Looking at EU official statements, Greenland’s accession/invasion by US seems inevitable and we’ll be watching closely.
I’m deeply disappointed by the EU’s leadership on this.
🔗 https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/03/k…
“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.”
Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March
and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Comcast completes the separation of most of its cable networks into a separate entity called Versant Media, led by Mark Lazarus as CEO (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news…
Everyone on the British left should read this from @meadwaj
"...it is the Greens today who, under the energetic new leadership of Zack Polanski, are setting the pace. Given the uncertainties of the Your Party narrative, it is the Greens who will continue to step up and set that pace. They are, as I have said, the leading force on the English left."
"[The leadership of other left forces] ave a serious responsibility not to get in the way of this advance"
…
Such an important insight:
✅ Machines get smarter by moving faster
✅ Humans get wiser by slowing down
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sometimes-most-radical-act-leadership-doing-nothing-all-murgatroyd-qq1fc
European Women’s International Leadership Award 2025
https://europa.blog/de/european-womens-international-leadership-award-2025/
I think some people saw the OP and imagined their country doing some kind of unilateral full-out political/economic suicide mission against the US. No no no. My request, I remind you, was to “Start laying the political groundwork now” for pushback against the US. Help make appeasement feel less and less safe for your political leadership with every passing day.
A look at Bret Taylor's AI agent startup Sierra as it launches new products; source: Sierra is on track to exceed $100M in annualized revenue by January 2026 (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/11/05/sierra-bret-taylor-c…
Just finished a fascinating documentary on Winston Churchill—what a master of strategy! 📚 His leadership during challenging times is endlessly inspiring. Who's your most admired historical figure and why? Share your thoughts; they might illuminate new lessons in leadership. #HistoryBuff #LeadershipLessons
I knew I was cranky about AI, but I guess I didn't realize just how cranky until I filled out this obnoxious and wildly boosterish questionnaire from the government of Canada.
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-co…
Seahawks Stories 50th Season Edition: Big Play Babs https://www.seahawks.com/video/seahawks-stories-50th-season-edition-big-play-babs
Offshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/offshore-fossil-fuel-exploration-jeopardizes-brazils-climate-leadership-study-says/
Minor good news for libraries: "A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency"
IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which funds leadership training and R&D in libraries in the US. A small % of library funding but important.
but I believe everyone is gone and grants cancelled so not sure what happens if funding returns-- who gets employed?
also, Facebook leadership is full of people that understand nothing of business that did one lucky thing at the start and can only grow by eating up the competitors before they can be dangerous.
Irsay-Gordon: Colts leaders face urgency to deliver https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47518751/colts-owner-carlie-irsay-gordon-says-sense-urgency-returning-shane-steichen-chris-ballard-del…
The Leadership Advantage Nobody Talks About: Being Into Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JeKkiizg4E
First this...
"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off."
And then this...
"Firefox will [...] evolve into a modern AI browser."
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/m…
How Former OL Richie Incognito Buried Raiders Leadership https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-former-richie-incognito-buried-leadership
Future People
Each episode features unfiltered conversations with leaders who are rethinking value, legacy, and leadership in a world being rebuilt...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/future-people/
🙋♂️ What the fuck is wrong with you?
❓ Have you ever seen a bandwagon you didn’t want to jump on?
💩 Can you please be less shit? https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115643458015221823
Sequoia announces that Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will be elevated to firm stewards, succeeding Roelof Botha, who led Sequoia solo since 2022 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/sequoia-capital-roelof-botha-pat-grady-alfred-lin
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115643458015221823
Jumping on the AI hype while it is collapsing is such a perfect summary for a lot of EU tech policy. This not only shows lack of understanding but lack of leadership …
Under this guys leadership Intel almost went bankrupt btw
European Women’s International Leadership Award 2025
#brussels
Sources: Roelof Botha was asked to step aside after some Sequoia partners raised concerns about his leadership; Botha had declined to comment on Shaun Maguire (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/sequ
Sources: Vanity Fair's February issue, already in print, lists Olivia Nuzzi as West Coast editor; staffers are yet to get an update on VF's Nuzzi investigation (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/olivia-nuzzi-book-vanity-fair-conde-nast-…
Dr. Ralph Abraham has spoken against Covid shots and ended mass vaccination campaigns.
Now he's in a position to make national health decisions.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/controversial-louisi…
Personally I'd have gone for a dual leadership, one in parliament and one not, and open membership but cautious re opportunist groups (principally SWP).
I'm not optimistic but let's see.
#YourParty
Inside Carlie Irsay-Gordon's rise as Colts owner -- and how her leadership is fueling a 7-1 start
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/inside-carlie-irsay-gordons-ri…
https://www.wsj.com/tech/israeli-spyware-maker-nso-gets-new-owners-leadership-and-seeks-to-mend-reputation-166ac50e
Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Gets New Owners, Leadership and Seeks to Mend Reputation
Exclusive: Resignations Continue at Heritage Foundation amid Frustrations with Leadership (Audrey Fahlberg/National Review)
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusive-more-staffing-resignations-at-heritage-foundation-amid-continued-frustrations-with-organizations-leadership/amp/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p40#a251222p40
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/apple-announces-departure-lisa-jackson-k…
If you're looking for the federal NDP leadership debate in the original French (which, let's be honest, isn't pretty (explaining why almost everyone is switching to English whenever they get the chance)), here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/live/BHS6DbS8rbg
"Australian State Secures Federal Support to Achieve 100% Net Renewables Goal by 2027"
#Australia #Energy #Renewables
Managers vs Leaders.
#leadership
Amid systemic corruption, Amazon countries struggle to fight environmental crime https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/amid-systemic-corruption-amazon-countries-struggle-to-fight-environmental-crime/
Cowboys' Stephen Jones praises Brian Schottenheimer for leadership during tragedy https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowbohowboys-stephen-jones-praises-brian-schottenheimer-for-leadership-during-…
“People want software that is fast, modern, but also honest about what it does.”
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
No, you muppet, people want tools that do what…
Bruce Arians: This is what separates Todd Bowles as a coach and leader https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6717623/2025/10/15/todd-bowles-bucs-leadership-bruce-arians-leadership-coach/
Maxx Crosby voted by teammates as Commitment to Excellence Award winner for fifth straight year https://www.raiders.com/news/maxx-crosby-voted-by-teammates-as-commitment-to-excellence-award-winner-for-fifth-straight-year<…
Trump has made various comments during this news conference showing that this military operation was at least in part about gaining more access to oil in Venezuela.
Asked about the potential presence of U.S. forces in Venezuela, Trump said that there would be a “presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil.”
What We Build — #leadership
Deel names ex-Credit Karma CEO Joe Kauffman as CFO ahead of a potential IPO, replacing Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz's father Philippe, who becomes executive chairman (Michael Roddan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/deel-hires-new-cfo-repla…
Venezuela’s mission to the U.N. has requested an emergency Security Council meeting
and has asked the Council to condemn the U.S. military strikes against the country.
Venezuela’s ambassador, Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta, said in a letter to the Council’s president:
“The United States of America always uses lies to fabricate wars.
It is an international tyranny imposed with the propaganda of death:
the recent past confirms this.”
Russia and China, allie…
I am being a bit cheeky, but I really do think this is a powerful psychological force that shapes orgs far more than we realize: it can be emotionally damaging to have people tell you “no” or question your ideas, and leadership means getting that •all the time•. People in management / executive positions — who are in fact very much people, all too human — will go to great lengths to protect their own psyches from the injury of pushback.
This is a •powerful• force in orgs.
7/
Maxx Crosby voted by teammates as Commitment to Excellence Award winner for fifth straight year https://www.raiders.com/news/maxx-crosby-voted-by-teammates-as-commitment-to-excellence-award-winner-for-fifth-straight-year<…
Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake by restoring the Jobsian "design is how it works" ethos in Apple's UI design (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job
Leadership Spotlight By Tradewind Australia
We know that the strength of the social services sector lies in its people - not only the dedicated professionals on the frontline, but also the leaders who guide organisations with vision, empathy, and determination...
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Sources: YouTube reorganizes its leadership team, with three product teams reporting to CEO Neal Mohan, and announces a "voluntary exit program" for US staff (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/youtube-announces-ai-reorg-and-layoffs
We asked Ndamukong Suh to read the best stories about himself. Watch him react https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911497/2025/12/23/ndamukong-suh-nfl-leadership-stories-teammates/
Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California's leadership in protecting children online (Governor of California)
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/13/governor-newsom-signs-bills-to-further-strengthen-californias-leadership-in-protecting-children-online/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p69#a251013p69
I agree with @… , and I think this is at root of much of the managerial mania for LLMs.
Having their terrible ideas go unchecked by underlings with expertise is basically crack cocaine for bad org leadership.
1/ https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115792431499413784
Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Sent Harsh Message By 4 x NBA Champion https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-called-bum-draymond-green/?adt_ei=[email]
Nick Saban 'shocked' by Tua Tagovailoa's comments on Dolphins leadership, apparent locker room dysfunction
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nick…
Elevate Podcast With Vic And Juls
Step into the world of business, leadership, and life behind the scenes with award-winning entrepreneurs, Victor Tran and Julia Truong...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/elevate-pod…
JOINT LEADERSHIP STATEMENT ON MOTION TO TABLE H.RES.939 (Julius Washington/Congressman Hakeem Jeffries)
https://jeffries.house.gov/2025/12/11/joint-leadership-statement-on-motion-to-table-h-res-939/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p92#a251211p92
Internal memo: TikTok plans leadership changes, moving two teams under ByteDance veteran Fiona Zhi and undoing earlier efforts to empower Western executives (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-revamps-m…
Why a simple act of appreciation explains Mike Vrabel’s leadership style https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6879941/2025/12/12/mike-vrabel-patriots-hugs-leadership/
A federal judge Thursday ordered the person at the center of much of Chicago’s enforcement,
Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino,
to appear for a deposition to explain federal agents’ use of tear gas and other less lethal weapons against protesters who have taken to the streets to oppose the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is replacing ICE leadership at half the country’s field offices with Border Patrol off…
13 Republicans defy GOP leadership, vote with Dems to advance repeal of Trump order on federal unions (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/13-republicans-defy-gop-leadership-vote-dems-advance-repeal-trump-order-federal-unions
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p131#a251210p131
'There's an energy and a competitive spirit to Stef': Why Diggs has boosted Patriots https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46886093/new-england-patriots-stefon-diggs-leadership
Trump administration shakes up ICE leadership across the country in major overhaul, AP sources say (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-ice-trump-deportation-69b599f8e7e7826f72b90068385a0047
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p135#a251028p135
Walter Koroshetz,
director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,
will soon be leaving his role
His departure in the coming days means nearly half the 27 NIH divisions will have interim leaders.
Koroshetz sent an email to NINDS staff late Friday night explaining that a request to reappoint him was denied, adding that his current temporary extension ends Sunday