25 results for tag: Chad Storlie
Read This Before You Begin a Higher Education Journey
Higher education advocates cite the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) findings that college graduates make, on average, twice as much a week as a high school graduate and have a 50% lower unemployment rate. In January 2021, the United States ...
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The Misadventures of a US Army Second Lieutenant – Learning to Be a Leader While Making Others Laugh
At the end of a career, military members like to remember their skill, tactical acumen, deployments, and the great military members that they led. As a retired Army officer, I was once a 2nd Lieutenant, the lowest grade of officer, in the Infantry, the ...
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Doing Business Well in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons from the US Navy During World War II
COVID-19 has given the public a re-appreciation of leaders and organizations pushing through previously unimagined challenges to continue to advance their business, protect employees, and improve their service to customers. During World War II, a little-known ...
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6 Hard Earned Lessons From Really Bad Bosses
We have all had bad bosses – some of us really, really, bad bosses. Mistakenly, when a bad boss departs, most of us feel relieved and then get back to work. The mistake is that we waste the leadership education that a bad boss brings. The collective ...
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How “Intrapreneurs” Create and Launch New Corporate Business Solutions
There are no “normal” workdays anymore thanks to COVID-19, disrupted supply chains, newly emerged customers, and vanished historical customers. Businesses, employees, customers, and suppliers are in a daily struggle to adapt, to adjust, and to continue to ...
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The Power of Positive, Singular Interactions
A few weeks ago, I was driving along a suburban street when a bicyclist turned onto the street, hit a patch of loose sand, and, fortunately, fell onto a lawn. I stopped the car, backed up, and got out to make sure that the person was OK. The person turned out ...
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How Military Skills Help a Career in Sales
Sales roles are some of the most difficult and the most rewarding of any position in business. Sales roles whether in a major corporation, a small business, a food truck vendor, or on the floor of a retail shop require patience, skill, good nature, a deep ...
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A Hard Job Made Easy: How to Deliver Bad News to Your Boss
No one likes to get bad news and, more importantly, no one likes to give bad news, especially to their boss. In the military, like business, no one likes to be surprised by bad news and no one like to deliver bad news. In the COVID-19 business world, bad news ...
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New Year Career Advice for Workers of Any Generation
The start of the new year is always a great time to pause and look for career advice. Career advice is relevant for any age and any stage of your career. Adapting your skills, career goals, network, and industry knowledge is more important as you age in the ...
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Character is the Only Possession That is Truly Yours
Character, like many things, is something you instantaneously know when you see it. I was eight years old and growing up in a small, Midwestern town. We had a classic “old school” neighborhood grocery store about a block from my house. The Ole Store, ...
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The 1st Rule of Leadership Club, Don’t Talk About Leadership
We live in a jaded world when it comes to leadership. We have all heard the person that speaks incredible advice on team leadership, recites maxims on how to enable employees, and then, in episodes of critical leadership practice, the same person fails ...
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