I’ve a dialogue between two gentlemen in this thread about personal relationships. I did not vote personal relationships as a preferred means of talent management. While I do understand how personal relationships can be important is discovering and developing talent, from my foxhole I feel that’s on a person-to-person basis. When I think personal…[Read more]

This is a great topic!

Me taking command is definitely not the usual. My last assignment was as a BN S6 in a Stryker BDE. When I spoke to my current BDE commander he told me that I’m going to be his HHC, BDE company commander. So, no assistant to the assistant staff time in the 3 before taking  command; I went right straight into one. And not j…[Read more]