Not too long ago, I read a blog on Forbes.com by Jerry Bowyer. He had interviewed Herbert E. Meyer, who served during the Reagan administration as special assistant to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (among other duties). Meyer has been credited as having been the first senior official to predict the fall of the Soviet Union, and his take on intelligence gathering is brilliant—and mostly outside the scope of SHOT Business. But in the course of a wide-ranging discussion on intelligence (or the lack thereof ), Meyer offered up some fascinating comments on organizational leadership—particularly what makes a… [Read More]
