BN Brutal Ranger training provides lessons for business
By Cecil Johnson Knight Ridder Newspapers In July 1965, Robert Turner sat on the edge of a dike overlooking a stinking rice paddy in Vietnam, so hungry, exhausted, homesick and scared that he thought about giving up. “I was thinking how much I wanted out of there, how much I wanted away from that place.
Ranger School Book Exposes... "No-excuse leaders don't have to act tough, but they must display mental toughness. Is it a coincidence that a 2006 study found that companies led by ex-military CEOs outperformed the S&P 500, and that such leaders lasted longer in their jobs?"