• By Mike Westman & Ed Gillcrist

Maintaining Organizational Balance

Originally Published by Training Journal. Leading an organization requires a broad range of capabilities and skills; from developing an effective strategy to establishing a structure that will allow you to realize the organization’s objectives, to selecting, resourcing and developing the people that make it all happen. While it’s important for any leader to understand their role […]

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  • By Mike Westman & Ed Gillcrist

How to Bring Out the Best in Your Team

Originally Published by People Matters. Leading teams can be exhausting. Riddled with challenges, short on recognition, but nevertheless rewarding. Getting the most out of your team is dependent on a host of factors, making it more an art than a science. While there is plenty of research that suggests what makes teams effective, this perspective […]

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  • By Mike Westman & Ed Gillcrist

Developing Your People as Leaders

Originally Published by People Matters. It should be widely accepted that developing the people within an organization is a responsibility normally associated with leadership, but the task is sometimes overlooked or simply overcome by events. Creating and executing a plan to develop your people clearly benefits those individuals by coaching them into a better understanding […]

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  • By Mike Westman & Ed Gillcrist

Fight Like a Marine

Originally Published by OD Innovator. Corporate Combined Arms: Putting the Competition in a Dilemma.  How do we crush the competition while continuously growing the team and getting better at what we do? For almost two and a half centuries, the United States Marine Corps has relentlessly perfected effective approaches to defeating our nation’s enemies in […]

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  • By Mike Westman & Ed Gillcrist

Private: The Philosophy of Maneuver Warfare

Maneuver Warfare in title has only existed for about 70 years, but its continuous success spans thousands of years and the evolution of warfare. Some of the greatest military minds throughout history have refined and distilled their successes into a philosophy with associated key characteristics, some of which have subsequently been applied off the battlefield with […]

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  • By Mike Westman & Ed Gillcrist

Been There, Done That!

The following is an excerpt from Chapter One of our forthcoming book Suits, Guitars & 3D Glasses; A Practical Guide to Corporate Maneuver Warfare™. For weeks, the wind howled across the Antarctic shelf. The frozen air penetrating the vulnerability of both unsuitable equipment, and human bodies that were never intended by God to withstand such extreme […]

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