“In recent months, which radical, tree-hugging group has upped the volume on pushing for action on climate change? I bet you wouldn’t have guessed American military leaders.”
-Andrew Winston, co-author of Green to Gold
As you begin researching the world of business, you want to align business opportunities and trends with your skills, strengths and passions. This is a key component of my system to accelerate your military transition success. See Part 2 of the Heroic Journey Series for more details. When I made my transition in the mid 1990s, I focused on the opportunities of globalization and the emerging trend of the Internet to secure a position as an international marketing manager for a US IT company based in Europe. For those of you making your transition now, you may seriously want to focus on the new emerging business imperative for the 21st century – sustainability.
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“Without exception, the CEOs interviewed emphasize that the military offers an early opportunity to acquire hands-on leadership experience that cannot be found in the corporate world or at a similarly early stage in people’s careers.”
-Korn/Ferry International
Does Military Service Help an Executive Become More Successful in Running a Corporation?
This is the question Korn/Ferry International, in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence Unit, sought out to find in a 2005 report called: Military Experience & CEOs: Is There a Link?. Korn/Ferry International is one of the leading executive recruiters in the world, while the Economist Intelligence Unit is a leading research organization focusing on country, industry and management analysis. When these two prestigious organizations come together to discover the relationship between military service and executive effectiveness, you better get your highlighter out.
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“Today a highly significant demographic realignment is at work: the mass relocation of highly skilled, highly educated, and highly paid people to a relatively small number of metropolitan regions, and a corresponding exodus of traditional lower and middle-class people from those same places.”
-Richard Florida
3 Choices for Your Post-Military Location
Where you live and begin working after the military may be the most important decision during your transition and in your life. You are so often caught up in finding the first job or position after the military that many of you give little consideration to geographical location. This can be costly and really short-sighted.
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