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Communication Strategies for Success Every successful relationship—be it professional or personal—is built on communication. Listen, nothing illuminates this concept more than a critical incident when lives are on the line.  When you are communicating effectively, things run smoothly and in order. But if you’re not communicating, chances are much higher that things will quickly get out read more →

Managers vs. Leaders: What Separates the Two? I have always been fascinated by this topic for a variety of reasons, largely because I spent over 20 years in both military and paramilitary organizations. We’ve all known and been forced to work with managers, people who order us around and expect us to obey. But when read more →

Confidence and Expertise vs. Overconfidence: What Happens When You Get Too Confident. Developing your leadership skills requires you to get very real with your own perception of your knowledge skills and abilities. This is always something I think about around weapons handling for example. Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the Independence Gun Range in read more →

Is all that cardio helping you burn fat or is it keeping you fat? We’ve all heard the popular advice that doing cardio (low-intensity, steady state) is the best way to burn fat. After all, low-intensity exercise uses fatty acids for energy rather than glycogen, and those fatty acids come from stored body fat. So read more →