January 2015: What Makes US Navy SEALs So Special?
This past weekend like millions of others, I went to watch “American Sniper” and loved it. I also finally watched “Captain Phillips” on HBO this week. Tom Hanks was phenomenal. Both films highlight the...
View ArticleFebruary 2015: The Single Most Comprehensive Collection Of Military/Business...
Over the past couple of years I have been researching various topics associated with leadership. During this same time, I have been ask to keynote, coach, and mentor a number of Vets transitioning to...
View ArticleMarch 2015: How Can A Business Leader Use the Army’s WARNOs, FRAGOs And OPORDs?
This past month I had the pleasure of picking up and reading a book from a friend of mine Tom Magness. It is called Leader Business: Battle-Tested Leadership Strategies For Any Organization. Great read...
View ArticleApril 2015: Leadership Skills For IT Professionals
I read an article in Harvard Business Review recently that really caught my attention. It discussed a recent CareerBuilder survey that found that only 34% of people want to become a manager. It was...
View ArticleMay 2015: Motivation For Vets Who Want To Start Or Own A Business
What do the founders of WalMart, Wendy’s, Motown Records, FedEx, AOL, GoDaddy, and Walgreens all have in common? That’s right. They are all veterans who started their own business after their service...
View ArticleJune 2015: Green Berets: Business and Leadership Advice from the Original...
When I was growing up, I hadn’t heard of “Special Ops”, Navy SEALS or even a Delta Force. I thought we had one group – THE SPECIAL FORCES who wore Green Berets and were the best of the best the U.S....
View ArticleJuly 2015: Pareto Principle Applied to Productivity – What Is A Leadership HPA?
Many people have heard of the Pareto Principle. Also known as the 80/20 rule. In sales I was taught that 80% of your sales come from 20% of your clients. In quality control, I was taught it represents...
View ArticleAugust 2015: Why You Should Have A Written Leadership Philosophy
In the summer of 1992 I was a junior officer assigned to the US Army’s prestigious Berlin Brigade, whose Cold War mission to counter Soviet strength in Germany’s historic capital had changed...
View ArticleSeptember 2015: What Does “Success” Look Like To You?
This month I ran across quite a few articles on things that successful people do and don’t do. I am going to share those. But, first, I wanted to mention what happened. When I ran across the first two...
View ArticleOctober 2015: Want Results? You Need a Single Person of Accountability
Back in the military when I was 17 years old, I was taught an early and important lesson about leadership. If there two Privates are assigned to scrub toilets – one of them was in charge of scrubbing...
View ArticleNovember 2015: To My Sons: “Play to Win”
“Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds, that on other days, on other fields, will bear the fruits of victory” – General Douglas MacArthur Like General MacArthur I believe sports play a...
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