By: Dalton Rice
Change is the inevitable morale killer that is necessary for businesses to survive and thrive unless leaders effectively manage that change and lead through it. However, what is worse than avoiding change?
Career Development
CLIMBING LADDERS: GROW WITH EACH STEP
By Dan Bradley:
Each of those “hardest” events set a new baseline for what I was prepared for, what I was capable of, and what challenge I wanted to pursue next.
ARE YOUR OBSTACLES TOUGHER THAN YOU?
Worst Summer Camp Ever In the Spring of 2016, I found myself face down in the middle of the woods, alone and in the dark, somewhere outside of San Antonio, Texas. I had been sent into the woods a few hours earlier on a night land navigation exercise. I searched for a...
WHY #DELETETHEADJECTIVE
I was invited to visit the Pentagon in January 2016 to eat lunch with the Chief of the Army Reserve Lieutenant General Jefferey Talley, after I was one of three women who graduated from the first integrated Ranger School course. Officially, I was the third female...
THE READBACK
The training process to earn a Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) certification is escalating, just like most well-formulated training processes in the military and the private industry. Simulated missions start with the bare basics – easy targets, minimal...
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION REQUIRES A GOOD BLUF
BLUF is a military acronym for “bottom line up front,” It is a communication strategy used to ensure that the most crucial message is clearly stated at the outset of any communication, written or spoken. There. See how easy that was? We put the bottom line upfront....
AGREE TO DISAGREE
I am not a political person. This is not a political article. I try my best to avoid conversations about politics entirely, whether with people I tend to agree with or people I tend to disagree with. It isn’t that I don’t hold political opinions, nor do I believe in...
The 5 Special Operations Truths Your Business Should Adopt
The following is adapted from The Talent War. From the use of the Green Berets during the initial invasion of Afghanistan to the rescue of Captain Phillips to the raids on Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—US Special Operations...
WE FEAR WHAT WE CANNOT CONTROL
We fear what we cannot control. What we cannot exploit increases our risk of failure. We, as people, are wired by default to run away and avoid failure. Everyone. Every leader. Every employee. If someone tells you they don’t fear failure, they are lying. People react...
Office Tribes
When researching for job opportunities, I focus on “the big three:” location, compensation, and job satisfaction. It seems like you can get two out of the three, but never all three. I didn’t understand until later in my professional career that it’s an isosceles and...
TWO IS ONE, ONE IS NONE
Isn’t it kind of funny that the mistakes you regret the most tend to turn into the lessons that you value the most? Here’s one of mine. As a young and inexperienced officer, I was training with my unit in northern New York. It was a late night in early November, which...
A RITE OF PASSAGE
The parallels between venture investing and life in special operations are uncanny, and it starts right at the beginning, from the time you throw your hat in the arena. As I pounded the pavement raising capital, the comments were always the same: "you're great, your...
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