Here’s a hard truth: your fellow staff leaders aren’t sure the PAO can have a lasting impact. Maybe communication initiatives are too hard to coordinate, or maybe no one wants
Here’s a hard truth: your fellow staff leaders aren’t sure the PAO can have a lasting impact. Maybe communication initiatives are too hard to coordinate, or maybe no one wants
The Board of Woe. It’s a powerful thing for you and your team, when you use it correctly. These are the tasks that you must complete, no matter what. When
Teams and units become elite, and develop absolute trust, when they execute the basics to perfection. Combat soldiers must be able to hit a target with their weapon and communicate
“A circular yellow signal means “caution” and indicates that the signal is about to turn red. Stop for a yellow signal unless you are too close to the intersection to
You ever get tired of the awkward attempts to reference your job in a useless pleasantry? We don’t. “Hey PAO, let’s not put this on CNN.” “What’s in the news
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
A Sergeant Major was mentoring me on getting a command-wide initiative completed. I kept running into a block, because one of the guys I had to work through wasn’t getting
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