Three of the U.S. military's newest recruits reported for duty this week at the Army Test and Evaluation Command . These troops are different from normal soldiers in several ways--for starters, each has six feet.
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Growth-oriented leaders make their intent clear and then let the team on the ground make the decisions. Here's how that can work at your company. At some point, every entrepreneur faces a moment of truth: Your company can’t grow if you insist on being present at every important encounter and the “decider” on every decision
Read More »Why I Only Hire Vets
Praemittias CEO Randy Stover sometimes felt that each new hire he made was a gamble. Not so with veterans, he says: "I know what I'm getting." Have you ever wished that you could put potential employees through a truly rigorous vetting process instead of reading off the list of "approved" questions provided by your HR staff
Read More »Business is Just Another Form of Combat
Dawn Halfaker, founder of Halfaker and Associates, took the stage at the Inc. 500|5000 Joining Forces Military Entrepreneurs Mentoring Fair at the Reagan Center in Washington, D.C
Read More »Army Tweaks Recruitment Video Game To Train Soldiers For Real "Hurt Locker" Situations
Soldiers are using a heavily modded version of America's Army to learn how to defuse bombs. While it may have been created as a game, the software's platform is proving versatile enough to use for battlefield training. The
Read More »Army Tweaks Recruitment Video Game To Train Soldiers For Real "Hurt Locker" Situations
Soldiers are using a heavily modded version of America's Army to learn how to defuse bombs. While it may have been created as a game, the software's platform is proving versatile enough to use for battlefield training. The
Read More »Army Tweaks Recruitment Video Game To Train Soldiers For Real "Hurt Locker" Situations
Soldiers are using a heavily modded version of America's Army to learn how to defuse bombs.
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Read More »Beware the military-psychological complex: A $125-million program to boost soldiers’ "fitness" raises ethical questions
Fifty years ago, in the same farewell speech in which he warned about the "unwarranted influence" of the "military-industrial complex" on American politics, President Dwight Eisenhower also deplored the growing dependence of scientists on federal funding. "The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by federal employment, project allocations and the power of money is ever present--and is gravely to be regarded." Eisenhower's speech comes to mind as I gravely regard the latest example of the militarization of science, a $125 million collaboration between psychologists and the U.S. Army called "Comprehensive Soldier Fitness," or CSF
Read More »How This 20-Year-Old Israeli Entrepreneur Sold an Army General on His App
Shai Magzimof had a great idea for an Android app--but he had to serve time in the Israeli Army. A few months ago, Shai Magzimof found himself in the pitch meeting of his life.
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