Conductors are silent. They stand in front of the orchestra and give direction, but they don’t actually make any music. The drummer is also directing their band: giving cues and
Conductors are silent. They stand in front of the orchestra and give direction, but they don’t actually make any music. The drummer is also directing their band: giving cues and
Who is the organization’s PAO? a. A PAQC graduate. b. The person given the assignment by Branch. c. The dude sitting in the PAO office. d. He or she who
Bureaucrats sigh when we walk in the room. My complacent peer rolls his eyes when we talk. We raise the blood pressure of the over-zealous security guy. Even some of
I’m a busy dude. The people that work with me are busy. We will make time for anyone who asks for it. Everyone is a VIP. Once upon a time
A great Command Sergeant Major says he sees people exist in three general ways: People who know something is happening, have some ideas about it and may or may not
Y’all know what time it is. We’re neck-deep in another summer of ceremonies and speeches as our leaders and colleagues change command, gain rank, retire, or move along to new
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.
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