Combat Leader to Corporate Leader: 20 Lessons to Advance Your Civilian Career

Military Special Operations (SPEC OPS) provides a wide range of simple, understandable, and easily translatable skill sets that make an immediate and lasting impact on business success and career advancement. SPEC OPS forces from the Army Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and Air Force Combat Controllers all universally advocate in-depth planning, creating options for mission success, violent execution, and fully debriefing a completed mission to look for success. Spec Ops mission planning and mission execution is based in the UNDERSTAND, PLAN, EXECUTE, and IMPROVE framework.  The central driver for success in SPEC OPS and business is the Operator / employee. In business, employees create products, satisfy customer needs, meet financial obligations, and make the critical decisions to guide the company to success. Therefore, finding and keeping the finest employees is the most important decision for a company.


This book will allow you to understand, translate, and apply unique and critical military and SPEC OPS skills sets in decision-making skills, maintaining a strong leadership ethic, excelling in execution, and employee coaching and development skills that can make you a vital element in the success of any business venture. Additionally, SPEC OPS training focuses on preparing and excelling when the unexpected happens. You will learn how to create integrated operations plans with multiple contingencies to ensure that critical strategies succeed, how to create and develop personnel to succeed in their careers, and how to coordinate the placement and use of critical resources to ensure that a plan has the best chance of success.