First, refresh on our first installment. Use the phone, but not voicemail. If you bold or highlight text in an email to draw attention to the important points, you’ve written
First, refresh on our first installment. Use the phone, but not voicemail. If you bold or highlight text in an email to draw attention to the important points, you’ve written
The leak conversation. Your access or lack of access to the commander. Oh my gosh, you met that reporter once? Food. Your last meal. Your next meal. The meal you
Leaders should think. There are volumes of research on the topic. There are thousands of business books that remind us to keep an eye on the big prize, the strategic
“I want to thank me for believing in me, I want to thank me for doing all this hard work. I wanna thank me for taking no days off. I
You can’t ask a reporter to hold a story if you’re not willing to have a conversation about context. You can’t put your commander on camera if you’re not going
Remember this post? There’s more to the formula. Review – Everyone in my shop knows everything, all the time – this is called shared understanding. Understanding enables action. Action gets
Know that guy who accidentally hits Reply All on an e-mail chain, and sends all recipients into an uproar? We prefer the guy who purposely hits Reply All to go wide
The other day a guy I work with had something to tell me. I had to piss and of course I waited till the last minute when it was a
Nobody on earth wants to hear about the problems you’ve identified. You don’t get points for finding problems without fixing them. Why are you talking about problems instead of solving
I’m deployed. I have limited time to fix what our country is doing in Afghanistan. Luckily I can work as much as I want. I am only limited by time,