You control the way your team and colleagues meet the day. The things you say in the morning’s first five or 30 minutes will set their attitude and priorities for


You control the way your team and colleagues meet the day. The things you say in the morning’s first five or 30 minutes will set their attitude and priorities for

Alright. We’ve spent the last year writing more than 100 posts about Public Affairs. Let’s have the OPSEC talk. Traditionally, this is the program through which we hide and protect

We write often about spending time in your organization’s Joint Operations Center (here and here and here and here and here) because it is your organization’s hub for centralizing and sharing information.

Listen to your commander talk to their boss. Do they speak in generalities? Make guesses? Struggle to find words, or constantly contradict themself? Of course not. Your commander speaks with

Microsoft Outlook works for you, not the other way around. Never let yourself become a slave to your inbox. “Just digging through e-mail” is yet another thing staff officers say

I love listening to staff officers–especially PAOs–give the “if only” talk. There are lots of folks out there who could end the war and conquer the world … if only

At MaxDisclosure, we’re big fans of the insights and ideas on Seth’s blog, and read each post. Read this one every morning this week; let Seth’s words guide the way

“I’m just trying to understand …” With these five words, reporters will crush through the Q&As you spent hours meticulously crafting in order to make the perfect series of non-answers.

For my organization, each day begins with our primary staff stand-up in the Joint Operations Center (JOC). We discuss intelligence developments, legal actions, resources, maneuver units’ completed actions and scheduled

Our senior leaders held a town hall session with several staff sections, including ours (we actually go to all the town hall sessions, regardless of audience). The other attendees probably