Ockham’s razor. If you’re like most people I meet in audiences across the US, many of you have heard of it. It, like all other philosophical razors, is a ...
That’s the phrase that I close with in my email signature block and that I autograph books with at book signings. It encapsulates everything I do as a professional; ...
“Movement”. Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary defines it as “an organized effort to promote or attain an end“. And that’s exactly what we’ve done at Vets2PM, start a movement to ...
If you’re like most military veterans that have sat in that first interview during your transition into the civilian workforce, or you’re like most hiring managers I meet across the ...
Doug, a tug, and its crew and cargo sailed past the Fish Lips restaurant in Cape Canaveral, Florida yesterday, right before I went on stage to present the Florida Association ...
My Context:Leadership Grid. It’s the grid you see depicted as this post’s image, and it’s one of the fundamental concepts I discuss when I address professional and industry audiences on ...
That’s because his statement “The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive ...
Vets2PM, LLC closed out its eighth year helping military veterans land meaningful, lucrative post-Service careers strong! We’ve helped over twelve thousand of them do just that in 1,167 companies across ...
“Smile!”. As a young inside sales representative, that’s what I heard from my supervisors and owners constantly. And later as a call center supervisor, I promoted the same advice. ...
Everyone that holds a project management credential from the US-based Project Management Institute must earn Professional Development Units, i.e., “PDUs”, to maintain those certifications. You do not want to take ...
In its most recent version of the Project Management Body of Knowledge, the seventh edition, the Project Management Institute defines a “project” as any “temporary endeavor undertaken to create a ...
“15%”. That’s the amount of “higher earnings” your company could expect from “choosing the best leader for the job” according to a new Hackett Group study 1. However, many ...
TL;DR: https://youtu.be/h5UJaGQJkiI Global consulting firm McKinsey and Company produces many studies of workforces. One of them is conducted every couple of years, and it focuses on what matters to employees ...
TL;DR Video: https://youtu.be/kvwJqFHCHmM One hundred and eighteen thousand. That’s the number we arrive at using some key Departments of Defense[i] and Labor[ii] numbers and a bit of arithmetic. And it’s ...
Imagine one day mattering so much to those around you that their lives literally depend on you doing what you know how to do extremely well so that all of ...
Regardless of what a project will deliver, such as a new or improved Web Site, a new or improved Smartphone, a new datacenter or warehouse, or a new Saturn rover, ...
Folks paid to be in charge of others to get things done that their organization needs done are called “leaders” in the military and “managers” in the civilian workforce, i.e., ...
Many transitioning military service members and veterans have experience running things and running teams. Therefore, presenting both can really enhance their interview performance. And certifying that experience before hand? A ...
