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GeneralLeadership.com is a community founded on the principles of providing Leadership advice from America’s most trusted leaders. Our mission is to facilitate active conversations between our readers and America’s most trusted leaders to inspire positive change. We believe Leadership is a choice, experience promotes growth and example influences change. We are guided by the values of service others by being responsible, sharing generously by being humble, and walking the talk by being accountable.
A primary premise of our community is the concept of bringing the advice, experience and example of leadership from military leaders to the larger reader and subscriber community. As a result, we have confined our pool of primary authors to the following demographics:
- Active Duty, Guard or Reserve Senior-Military Leaders in the rank of:
- Officer: O-5 and Above with Command Experience (NATO Equivalent OF-4 and above)
- Enlisted: E-9 (NATO Equivalent OR-9) with experience within proximity of command
- Former Military Leaders who have Honorably Retired in the above grades
- Curators and Leaders within GeneralLeadership or parent organization(s).
Authors who do not meet the above criteria and wish to seek publication with GeneralLeadership.com may explore doing so as a co-author with an existing author, curator or board member. Authors who do not meet this criteria will not be allowed to publish on GeneralLeadership.com solo. Restrictions upon our available pool of authors are regrettable; however, our brand has established expectations about author qualifications. Failing to adhere to these demographics dilutes our brand, as well as the bond we have with our subscribers and readers. If you wish to inquire about our author policies and guidelines, please use this form to chat with us about becoming a GeneralLeadership.com author.
IMPORTANT POSTING INFORMATION :: Please read THIS AUTHOR GUIDE
As the originator of creative material via your article or post, you retain the original copyright. We restrict visitors to our site from reposting or re-using material posted on GeneralLeadership.com per the Site Permissions and Terms of Service. That said, it should be noted that due to serious Google Search Engine restrictions on “authentic content,” duplicate postings on the web are severely punished and this can negatively affect both your site and GeneralLeadership rankings. As such, we strongly discourage reposting your GeneralLeadership.com article in its entirety on your website or elsewhere. That said, as the originator of content, you retain your ownership rights to your creative material and can do with it as you wish. We strongly endorse other media exposure, such as print material, books, etc which won’t conflict with search engine optimization rules. You may also consider creating an original “teaser” snippet (not copied from the post) on your site with a link to your GeneralLeadership article. Regardless of what you choose, for your benefit and ours, it is best for you to provide original content at different search-engine indexable sites. At the very least, as a general courtesy to us as your online publisher, please wait at least two-weeks before considering reposting your material elsewhere.
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We encourage you to submit at least one article per month. All accepted GeneralLeadership.com Blogger applicants are accepted on a conditional probationary basis (until we get to know you.)
All submitted content is subject to editing based on the sole discretion of GeneralLeadership.com (so that we keep things appropriate for the members.)
Submission of content does not guarantee posting.
General Guidelines:
A) Write each blog entry to run between 500 and 800 words.
B) Include 3-6 hyperlinks in each blog that references other blogs, website pages, white papers or other reference information that adds depth and dimension to your posts.
C) End each post with 3-5 relevant questions to entice the reader to respond or submit comments and discussion.
D) Overall, the objective is to generate conversation and facilitate that conversation through the comments area. This will help you earn the right for readers to want to contact you.
E) Your signature block will be created by GeneralLeadership.com from the information you provide above and will show up at the bottom your your post so that interested readers can find you.
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General Rules of the Road:
•The focus is on developing the conversations and thought on leadership specific to the topics.
•Write from your experience, expertise, and heart. People will want to get to know you through your writing.
•You are writing as a servant leader. This is not the place to promote your outside interests, your book, your agenda, or your outside training programs. That belongs in your personal blog or website. Each entry is a NON-COMMERCIAL post. Keep brand names and items like “™ or ® ” that point back to your personal offerings out of the picture. Your excellent communication style will be the advertising that promotes your other interests. People who love you first, then trust you will seek you out and contact you on their own.
•We care more about what everyone thinks and has to say about the questions you pose. Essentially, your role is discussion leader and one who brings out what others want to say about or add to the conversations around the topics that define and differentiate the GeneralLeadership.com Blog.
•After your application has been accepted, we would love each member of the blog team to commit to a minimum of 1 blog entry per month, if possible. If occasional posting works best for you, this is okay too!
•Expect that your entries might be slightly modified by our editors to reflect overall tone and mission. We might also add in keywords, where appropriate, to help you get more readers through higher ranking on search engines.
Disclaimer:
General Leadership is privately operated and is designed to provide leadership perspective and conversation on character and integrity from senior military leaders. Neither The General Leadership Foundation, nor GeneralLeadership.com, operates as a partisan political advocate or activity, nor do our curators and authors participate with the Foundation or site in such capacity. Our collective activities are not directed at the success or failure of a political party, partisan political candidate, campaign, group or cause nor do we solicit or fundraise for such activities.
- The images depicted and opinions expressed on this website are solely those of the author and contributors and do not represent those of any agency of the United States Government, expressly including, but not limited to, the Department of Defense, the United States Army, the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Coast Guard, or the United States Air Force. The site is not designed, authorized, sanctioned, or affiliated, by or with, any agency of the United States Government, expressly including, but not limited to, the Department of Defense, the United States Army, the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Coast Guard, or the United States Air Force. The opinions of the authors and commentators are theirs and theirs alone.
- The curators and owners of General Leadership do not assume any responsibility for the opinions of posts or comments they did not personally write. Opinions are based upon personal experiences and knowledge. The views of the authors do not necessarily reflect the views of the owners/administrators of General Leadership and remain the intellectual property of the individual author. Additionally, Owners/Administrator/Authors are not responsible for the content of others–especially comments which may be left by readers. Such comments collected from readers are not endorsed, nor is endorsement implied, by the General Leadership Foundation, GeneralLeadership.com, it’s curators or authors. General Leadership does not endorse or denounce authors’ opinions.
- GeneralLeadership.com authors and curators participate as individuals in their personal capacities and act exclusively outside the scope of official positions and in a manner not related to official duties. Furthermore, participation in The General Leadership Foundation is not intended to conflict with official duties of active military members. Disclaimers are made in accordance with 5 C.F.R. § 3601.108(a)-(c).
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