Month: March 2019
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Feelings about fractures
(the avulsion kind) I injured my ankle yesterday. It was around 6 AM. The leader of the day’s workout had us doing burpees, sprints and sit-ups in a field. Then he wanted ‘all you got’ sprints up and down the field. Then he wanted an ‘all you got sprint’ down the quarter mile back to…
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Flanking the Competition: Using Military Strategy to Inform Competitive Intelligence
[Note, this post originally appeared on ProductCraft] It was 3 am, ten kilometers outside of Marjah, Afghanistan, and just a few nights after the start of Operation Moshtarak (the largest offensive since the fall of the Taliban). I was a 26-year-old Marine Intel Lieutenant, huddled with a platoon in some abandoned farmers’ huts on the…
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What Can Product Managers Learn From Military Veterans?
[Note, this post originally appeared on ProductCraft I am re-posting it here as I tear down another site and post-dating it to when it was first posted there. ] What can this guy……possibly teach this guy about creative product work? I am a product manager at IBM; in a past life, I led Intelligence and…