Words from the Desert to Help You Today
By Mason New Recently, the words emerged from the far recesses of my memory. Exhausted, we had spent two weeks in the Mojave Desert of Southern California training for the …
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The Five of Spades
Bob invited me to create another blog post for submission to VeteranCrowd… so here’s the second blog post about Puzzle Perks. The first blog post was much easier to write …
Why The Market Doesn’t Like Your Company’s Story
What do you, dear leader, think makes a good story? In the past two weeks, I have had the great fortune to experience three in three different media: the …
iFly Virginia Beach Report
Many thanks to Bob Pizzini and the staff at iFly Virginia Beach for a great evening. Here is some video from the flying we squeezed in before a …
Where sarcasm and insults are a good sign
I know things are going really well when the insults start getting slung around. You see, insults and cutting sarcasm are the true signs we like each other. There are …
To my sons
Dear Sons, It is Veterans Day, and so I pose a question. Have you ever stopped to wonder? It really is a miracle we are all here today. “Dad,” your …
Over coffee with a soldier
He came from modest means, had paid his own way through college by working wherever he could to make money, and had enlisted in the Virginia National Guard. A deployment …
Provide the Structured Training Your Workforce Needs with an LMS
Provide the Structured Training Your Workforce Needs with an LMS Many Veteran led businesses are particularly successful because of the way they run their businesses: with order and discipline. When …
Hello, Old Friends
I’ve recently spent 9 months living out of suitcases and boxes, moving from place to place. I didn’t have a kitchen for 6 months. I couldn’t work at home. It’s …
“Tomorrow the sun will rise, and who knows what the tide will bring in.”
It started with an idea. I was on an airplane, flying from nowhere to somewhere, filling out a Sudoku grid in the back of the airline magazine. As I filled …