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, ...
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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...
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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
.
...
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June 05, 2025New IT Programs Launch 9 June 2025
New programs and services continue to roll out here at Madison Education Group and the Madison School of Professional Development. In a recent press release, MEG announced new, self guided certificates in information technology, Python programming, and Spreadsheet essentials.
Dr. Jeevan D’Souza will curate the new program. Dr. D'Souza has a background in electrical engineering and holds a PhD
in Computer Science. Of the programs, Dr. D’Souza stated, “With its
blend of a...
May 12, 2025Three Free Success in Business Certificates Now LiveThree Free Success in Business Certificates Now Live
The Executive Vice President, Dr. Scott Eidson, and the production team over at the Madison School o...
May 30, 2025New Free Success in Business Certification LaunchedNew Free Success in Business Certification Launched
The fourth, free certificate in the Madison School of Professional Development Success in Business S...