Before modern social media, my college fraternity shared a group e-mail listserv, for planning and buffoonery. If you wrote more than three lines, you‘d be shamed. Nobody wanted to read
Before modern social media, my college fraternity shared a group e-mail listserv, for planning and buffoonery. If you wrote more than three lines, you‘d be shamed. Nobody wanted to read
As a commander, I had some team members who were super easy to work with, and some who had to be dragged along. Regardless of who did great work, I
Use this story about perceptions and relevancy to think about the way you tell your team’s story inside the organization. I worked with a big staff section that had a
Fun staff activity: after a few months of training and deployment, my brigade staff leaders and I shared enough inside jokes and recurring observations to fill a few bingo cards.
First, refresh on our first and second installment: Move with a purpose. Aggressively have your shit in order. Don’t bitch about coffee, just buy it and make it. Never look
“I’d be a great PAO, I’m really nice and love to talk to people.” -Someone I probably won’t hire. We all know this guy, right? Mr. or Mrs. Personality, who
My Public Affairs Detachment once brought three TVs on annual training at an armory across the state. “Just in case we need them.” We used one of them to, for
“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
Seth’s Blog almost nails it with this one: its your choice to make your work look effortless. Left unsaid is that you also can, and should, actively reduce your vulnerability to
E-mail is my least preferred method of communication. Make it yours, too. To be clear: I use e-mail all day, every day. I recognize its role in the modern workplace,