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July 02, 2025Leadership Potential

By Dr. Scott. If you are familiar with this blog, or if you had the unfortunate experience to be one of my students, you know that I rank effective succession planning as the most important best practices businesses need to implement if long term success is the goal. Most organizations have a succession plan. The plan is a written document that identifies individuals and processes for preparing those individuals for future leadership. Unfortunately, many leadership teams do not have the capacity or the focus to drive this forward long term. They have a plan, but not the follow through. In a broader sense, we often think of all of this as the leadership pipeline. However, we can already see how this tends to breakdown and how this pipeline easily gets clogged and malfunctions. When this development process breaks down, it can have a negative impact on organizational culture, business performance, and market share. Over the next few weeks, then, ... Read more

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June 25, 2025US Intelligence Agencies: Too Many? Not Enough?

By: Dr. Ken Gemlich Over the next several weeks, we will be exploring some of the various US intelligence agencies. In this initial entry, we take a bird’s eye view of the agencies that fall under the purview of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Department of Homeland Security. Intelligence Community Alphabet Soup In the United States there are nearly 20 different intelligence agencies including two independent agencies: the DNI and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The U.S. intelligence community is composed of the following agencies: Nine Department of Defense elements—the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency (NGA), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and the intelligence elements of the five DoD services; the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force. Other intelligence agencies come from seven elements of other departments and agencies—the Department of Energ... Read more

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June 23, 2025New AI Certificates Added

Throughout June 2025 MEG, through the Madison School of Professional Development, has launched several new certificate programs in information technology and now Artificial Intelligence. Last week, MEG President, Dr. Robin Westerik, together with Dr. Jeevan D'Souza, the developer and lead faciltiator for the new programs, released a statement regarding the new programs in AI. Of the programs, Westerik commented, "whether curious about AI, considering an AI driven career path, or just looking to maximize AI applications, these programs provide that foundation you need." Learn more about the new programs: Artificial Intelligence Foundations Data Science Foundations Read the full press release . ... Read more