“Always An Adapting Environment”: How to Succeed in a Market of Contradictions

Covid, Inflation, Supply Chain interruptions and more have caused very volatile markets. A&D has also seen its share of volatility…and it is ever adapting to the environment. With the squeeze on labor, working capital and raw materials organic growth seems difficult – but not impossible. It’s a market of contradictions. The deal flow is there, […]

Become the Focused Expert: 10 Steps to a Successful Career

Success is easy to find when it’s broken down into the basics. What are the 10 key ingredients of a successful career? How do you avoid the common pitfalls? In this special 200th episode of the podcast, we talk about the secrets to a million dollar career. If you don’t understand what you need to […]

Million Dollar Careers: Finding Success in a Post-Career World

The traditional career is dead. Instead of climbing the resume ladder, many people are waking up to possibilities outside the cubicle or corner office. We don’t live in an age where people stick with one career for decades. One person can have multiple iterations of their career, but it takes courage to make the leap. […]

Million Dollar Careers: Draft Day is a Microcosm of the Business World

The NFL draft is the greatest talent-hunting mission on display, and it’s a master class in excellence, business, recruiting, and people development. Millions of kids play high school football. In college that number precipitously drops to 96,000 and at the professional level that drops further to 1,600. That exponential leap in caliber raises the game, […]

Want the Best Talent in Your Organization? You’ve Got to Thread the Needle

When it comes to finding and bringing on superstar talent, some companies just can’t get out of their own way. They don’t do enough to make themselves a destination for the best of the best. They don’t offer enough value to stand out in the marketplace and they look for candidates in all the wrong […]

How to Reinvent a Company & Become An Attractive Workplace in Your Industry

Reinventing your career is something just about everyone will have to do at some point, but what about companies? Can a company that was headed in one direction shift its entire trajectory? The short answer: yes. With thought and intention a company can change its culture, realign their hiring practices and do what it takes […]

Does the Little Guy Hold All the Cards Now?

Once upon a time in aviation and defense, tier 1 operators held all the cards and led all the innovation. Now the days of “you need us more than we need you” are squarely in the rearview mirror and smaller operators have a lot more power than they ever did before. In a supply-constrained environment, […]

Great Salespeople Don’t Need a Large Base Salary to Make a Lot of Money

Entrepreneurial individuals and salary-focused people aren’t built the same. This is a lesson smaller organizations learn the hard way when they bring on a leader who has a large corporate mentality. The two types of business mentality don’t gel, and forcing a bureaucratic leadership style on an entrepreneurial organization can tank the business faster than […]

The Recipe for Turnaround: How to Bring a Business Back From the Brink

Whether it’s a huge corporation, a small company or a news station, taking a struggling business from dead last to dominant is a unique, yet thrilling challenge for the right person. When you’re brought in as the fix-it specialist, a lot needs to be done, from driving culture change to motivating your people. What are […]