From Washington to Mattis, our most successful leaders were life-long students of war. In the July-September issue of Armor Magazine, I wrote a piece called Maneuver Leaders, Self-Study and War, where I discuss the importance of life-long learning and provide readers with a great resource to start their journey. Please check it out!
By Joe Byerly Each morning, the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy got up and read his notebook of personally-curated passages from his favorite books (he later published this as A Calendar of Wisdom). In his diary, he wrote, “I felt that I had been elevated...
By Joe Byerly Even though we have more information at our fingertips than ever before, it’s getting easier to get stuck in echo chambers. News outlets cater to their “brand” of audience. Algorithms serve us content based on our browsing histories. We curate...
By Joe Byerly Have you ever been in a very stressful situation? I’m not talking about getting stuck at a red light with two minutes to park and make it to an important meeting stressful. I mean the kind of stress that feels like you’re surrounded—where pressure’s...