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First in Flight
Yet the Wright brothers were just ordinary guys
They were
Their rock-solid alliance
achieved the miracle of flight
On December 17th 1903, the alliance of Wilbur and Orville Wright
attained powered flight. Independently they would have failed.
The Wright brothers:
2023 personality profile analysis
Abstract:
The success of the Wright brothers in designing the 1st airplane
was due to their complementary hemispheric-dominant personalities,
which enabled them to integrate the analytical and the creative skills
critical to bridge the gap between theory and practical application.
- APA PsycNet
American Psychological Association
Just ordinary guys who never graduated high school
But they ascended to the apex of inventive successfulness
Infinitely more than a partnership,
their first-to-fly venture was the perfect
model of a collaborative alliance.
Each understood the other’s weaknesses,
freely offering their strengths to the solving
of complicated technical problems.
Both brilliant in their own ways, each brother
lacked the key attributes essential to succeed -
innovating alone they were ineffectual.
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Newba needs adaptive divers to share their
understandings, experiences, and challenges -
then impart dive wisdom and visionary ideas.
Collaborative Alliances
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Truly successful collaborations have an inherent quid pro quo -
that is, the collaborators all know that their individual contributions
are meaningful, essential, and acknowledgeable.
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- Harvard Business Review
Collaborative Innovation
It behooves us to start with strong relationships.
Making them the paramount component of our ideals,
they will soon become the greatest vitality and constancy
of the Collaborative - far more profitable than its goals.
It behooves us to remember relationships cannot be forced.
To quote Bateson, they must be "found and cultivated."
Those well-affirmed alliances grow into connective tissue,
nourished by inclusion and co-creation, which serve to draw
the Collaborative’s divergent goals into true alignment.
AF CyberWorx Facilitator
USAF Wing SNCO | TEDx speaker
Authentic relationships versus transactional ones...
Authentic individuals can tell the difference.
Deputy Chief
Office of the Director
of National Intelligence
New Spirit Scuba
seeks collaborative alliances
that value all those who accepted the challenge,
and honors those who have endured the
sacrifice and suffering
First Lieutenant Elena Ruiz-Krause
Toledo, Ohio
Served in Kuwait and Iraq 2016-2017
Platoon Leader overseeing three Paladins
Staff Sergeant Howard Curtis Ward
Served six years in Navy, 11 years in Army
Served four tours in Iraq
Fired hundreds of Paladin rounds against ISIS
Fort Bliss Texas | Paladin Battery
M109 Paladin Field Artillery
155mm self-propelled howitzer
Gunnery Sergeant Christian Carado
San Francisco, California
Served one tour in Iraq, three in Afghanistan as
infantryman, artilleryman, and mortarman
Major Matthew Daniel Meyer
Leads brigade of about 1,000 soldiers
Served three tours in Iraq, one in Afghanistan
Company commander in Afghanistan
Sergeant T. Wilder
Athens, Tennessee
Served in Iraq 2011-2012 clearing IEDs
Abrams tank commander
Captain Alan Bauerly
Battalion fire direction officer
Served multiple tours in Iraq
Fired 1,000 Paladin rounds into Mosul
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