Marine Corps

The US Marine Corps is one of the best fighting organizations in world history. Most people don’t know it, but the Marines Corps was almost eliminated twice in its history: once in the 1890’s and again after World War II. Why is the Marine Corps still around and why is the Marine Corps so successful? […]

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Leadership is one providing guidance to another. Leadership requires wisdom–good decisions matched with good actions. Here’s some wisdom I learned about perfectionism from a skinny guy, callsign “Hulk”. Back in the last century, we were five Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier jet pilots going through advanced air-to-ground weapons training. That’s a fancy way of saying that […]

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I am one of those people who sometimes learns things the hard way—by making mistakes. Many of the best leadership lessons I have learned came while I served as an AV-8B Harrier pilot in the Marine Corps. Sometimes the leadership lessons came in installments. In this case, the first installment came from The Cow and […]

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