I am often asked “How do I help my project teams select which planning and delivery method to use for each project Doc?”. And I answer with the six simple questions that take about 10 or 15 minutes to answer. And they are all about “capability”… First,
“Mentorship”. It’s like a force of nature! When attentive, wise mentors apply the right amounts of pressure at the right times in the right places needed by a chunk of coal, in time it can become an exquisite, highly valuable diamond. It helped me many times in
Oxford’s online dictionary defines “capability” as “the power or ability to do something” and “the extent of someone’s ability”. That last part is interesting to me, and represents something a critical mentor to me once explained… “Capability” he said, “is the combination of being able to do something,
Over the past nine years of helping thirteen thousand plus military veterans enter fantastic meaningful, lucrative post-Service project management careers in over one thousand companies, I have run into several widely-held, stubborn myths about us as a population. And they’re not true. And they’re detrimental to our hiring
That’s a bit of shore fishing wisdom I use on the Atlantic beach a block east of my house when I go fishing. That’s because there about forty or so species within cast range, and you can only catch certain species of fish at certain times of the year.
At the risk of oversimplifying, here is the hiring process illustrated. It’s from the perspective of the folks in an organization in Corporate America looking for a candidate to hire, the functional manager and their HR partner. And it’s for the veteran hiring candidate’s benefit to understand its
Everyone loves it! And for good reason. We like to make sound decisions. And proof helps us do that empirically. We can be confident in our conclusions and the decisions we make based on them. You can use proof pudding to help you start a new career or
The complex challenge of reintegrating our military veterans, i.e., “heroes”, defined as “people admired for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities”, back into the civilian workforce has persisted since Caesar Augustus in 13 BC! Therefore, it’s time to solve this problem, and First Principles Thinking is a time-tested problem-solving technique
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 mental shortcut we use to reduce complexity around decisions and issues. Ockham’s razor, sometimes spelled “Occam”, was invented by monk
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; help military veterans achieve meaningful, lucrative post-military service careers. And although, as a military veteran, I primarily speak to
