The Importance of Hiring Veterans: Why Hiring Veterans Without Them Doesn’t Work If you are a business, you value talent that improves your productivity and competitiveness. One of the most overlooked talent pools that can rapidly enable your business’ productivity and competitiveness are products of this nation’s military, its veterans. Yet, they are often overlooked…

Strengthening National Security: How the Military Can Aid Itself and the Nation   The Modern War Institute at West Point recently hosted an essay contest with the prompt: What novel approaches can the United States military employ to solve the recruiting crisis? Below is my response. I welcome your thoughts.   “The willingness with which…

How Employers Can Meet Their Affirmative Action Goals Employers may have read with some trepidation the outcome of a recent Supreme Court decision that prevents American colleges from considering race in admissions decisions. After all, the goals of affirmative action programs have been advanced in recent years by Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives now…

Most Employers Needlessly Forfeit Productivity Despite all the recent chatter about hiring military community members, the real-time plug-and-play capabilities their underlying skills enable, and the financial rewards and goodwill that come with doing so, insufficient numbers of employers are taking advantage of this talent pool today. How so? 90% of small businesses, which comprise more…

How Employers Can Address a National Security Crisis   “The willingness with which our young are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.” – George Washington, 1789   Whatever your views on the…