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3 Tips For Hiring Managers On How To Recruit Veterans

YoungUpstarts

You have to do some legwork to meet them halfway, but for some hiring managers they might not know where to start, especially if they don’t have a military background. Even when their experience is directly applicable to a job opening, it may not be clear on their resume to a hiring manager who doesn’t know what to look for.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. “…it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. ”. The Red Queen Alice in Wonderland.

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Herding Cats – Using Lean to Work Together

Steve Blank

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. A beneficiary can be a soldier, program manager, commanding general, government contractor, stakeholder, customer, etc.)

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Leaders They Look Up To

Hearpreneur

More recently, I’ve had quite a bit of admiration for management theorist Simon Sinek. Sinek is not only excellent at articulating ideas and helping people to connect with them, but he also shares management theories and tactics that truly work and can be implemented in nearly any setting you can imagine. #2- Simon Sinek.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 31: Congressmen Dan Lipinski and Seth Moulton

Steve Blank

Marine Corps veteran who served four tours in Iraq, including two tours as a platoon commander and two tours as a Special Assistant to Gen. As a former Marine, he has first-hand experience with the need to speed defense innovation efforts: I remember when my GPS mapping system in my Humvee broke down when I was over in Iraq.