I remember sitting in my office as I started the retirement process. I had taken out a blank piece of paper and started to plan the next chapter of my life. No PCS orders.No mandated timeline.No new duty station. Just a pen, a quiet house, and a question I wasn’t prepared to answer: What amContinueContinue reading “After the Uniform: The Hardest Part of Transition Isn’t What You Think”
Category Archives: Leadership
Predictions are Cheap
Even if you have no desire to use AI and don’t care about Machine Learning, It is still important to understand them so you can understand where they are being used.
Grounded in Grace: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Jesus, and the Fight of Faith
Last Fall my wife and I were discussing which sports to get our two youngest sons into, considering our oldest son and daughter were already engaged at their local high school and junior high respectively. It wasn’t long before we decided on allowing them to try Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. As I understood it, a lotContinueContinue reading “Grounded in Grace: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Jesus, and the Fight of Faith”
Why Business Analytics?
We find ourselves in a unique situation and company’s have a decision to make. Do we hire a data scientist now or do we hire a data scientist later? We now have access to more information and it’s growing at an exponential rate. Without getting into the numbers and size of growth, what we mustContinueContinue reading “Why Business Analytics?”
Mental Moonlighting from the Home Office
You are spending an absorbent amount of energy working to find a new balance, during the new COVID-19 Pandemic.
Here’s what I recommend –
Thoughts on Machine Learning
ML algorithms and the ML models produced are powerful for your organization, but keep in mind that people are, and will always be the most important commodity.
New Job – First 30
The first 30 days of your new job not only establishes your role in the organization, but also who you may be perceived at the rest of your time there.
How to Cope with Immoral Leadership
What is immoral leadership? An immoral leader is selfish, blind, greedy, hateful, and in some circumstances, destructive.
Moral Leadership
Above all else, a leader must be moral – not strong, not loved, or as Machiavelli stated, feared. Morality is the most fundamental part of great leadership and is rarely discussed as a desired or present characteristic of great men and women. Morality is the compass that guides the decisions and actions of good peopleContinueContinue reading “Moral Leadership”
Best Practices
Best practices do not work in real life because they are rarely anchored, specify the web and ignore corner relationships required to make the ‘best practice’ possible. Touting that your department has a ‘best practice’, and then sharing that best practice isn’t as simple as writing up a white paper, and then emailing it toContinueContinue reading “Best Practices”
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