{"id":3874,"date":"2011-04-06T12:59:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2011-04-06T12:59:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:59:25","slug":"carl-prine-interviews-don-vandergriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3874","title":{"rendered":"Carl Prine interviews Don Vandergriff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investigative reporter, Iraq veteran\u00a0and Military.com<\/a><\/strong> columnist\/blogger Carl Prine<\/strong> has an excellent interview with blogfriend\u00a0Don Vandergriff<\/strong> <\/a>at Prine’s Line of Departure<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Not So Quiet Goes the\u00a0Don!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

….DON VANDERGRIFF: Yeah. Well, it goes back to the competency approach – Leave No Child Behind.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s like training for the test or rote memorization. And that’s what PowerPoint is. It’s a tool of the <\/strong>competency theory of education<\/strong><\/a>, if you think about it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s no thought being put into it. It follows a format. People find out what the boss likes to see and they put it into that format. They depend on that. Because – as you and I know- if you really know what you’re talking about, they get up there and just tell it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

PRINE OF DEPARTURE: You and I have known each other for years. And we’ve been talking about <\/strong>“Careerists”<\/strong><\/a> and what they do to a military culture.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the reason why I ask this is because there’s this young captain who I really respect. He’s one of the best young captains I’ve ever met. And he asked me, “Carl, how do you define a \u2018careerist?’ What is a \u2018careerist?'”<\/strong><\/p>\n

DON VANDERGRIFF: A “Careerist” is a <\/strong>courtier<\/strong><\/a>. All he’s interested in doing is flattering the King. Courtiers form together and you get “<\/strong>groupthink<\/strong><\/a>.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are a lot of problems that come from Careerists. A Careerist is someone who puts self before service. A Careerist doesn’t understand that by making your subordinates better than you are, you’re actually making your entire organization better.<\/strong><\/p>\n

PRINE OF DEPARTURE: And you’re making yourself better.<\/strong><\/p>\n

DON VANDERGRIFF: Right.<\/strong><\/p>\n

DON VANDERGRIFF: To get to the bottom line, it’s selfish leadership….<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Investigative reporter, Iraq veteran\u00a0and Military.com columnist\/blogger Carl Prine has an excellent interview with blogfriend\u00a0Don Vandergriff at Prine’s Line of Departure: Not So Quiet Goes the\u00a0Don! ….DON VANDERGRIFF: Yeah. Well, it goes back to the competency approach – Leave No Child Behind. It’s like training for the test or rote memorization. And that’s what PowerPoint is. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,304,338,492,462,39,340,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-defense","category-john-boyd","category-leadership","category-metacognition","category-military","category-military-reform","category-vandergriff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}