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Chris Erickson

Chris Erickson is a combat veteran and former Green Beret with extensive experience deployed to various locations across the world. He now works in the communications industry. Follow him on Twitter at @EricksonPrime.

On Solitude

Commentary All around the world, for the first time in any of our lifetimes, humanity as a whole ...

Viewpoints March 31, 2020
Meekness as True Strength

Commentary “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.” (The Gospel of Matthew, chapter 5, verse ...

Viewpoints March 17, 2020
Make ‘Rules of Ranging’ Your Rules for Business: Part 10

Commentary In 1757, in the middle of the French and Indian War, Maj. Robert Rogers composed a list ...

Viewpoints February 25, 2020
Make ‘Rules of Ranging’ Your Rules for Business: Part 9

Commentary In 1757, in the middle of the French and Indian War, Maj. Robert Rogers composed a list ...

Viewpoints February 24, 2020
Make ‘Rules of Ranging’ Your Rules for Business: Part 8

Commentary In 1757, in the middle of the French and Indian War, Maj. Robert Rogers composed a list ...

Viewpoints February 16, 2020
Positive Freedom Versus Negative Freedom

Commentary I want to begin this article with an intentionally open-ended and deliberately controversial statement: There's something deeply ...

Viewpoints January 29, 2020
Make ‘Rules of Ranging’ Your Rules for Business: Part 7

Commentary In 1757, in the middle of the French and Indian War, Maj. Robert Rogers composed a list ...

Viewpoints January 12, 2020
After Action Reviews: Learning From Our Painful Failures

Commentary On Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019, at approximately 8:50 a.m., I stepped off the starting line of the ...

Viewpoints January 6, 2020
Make ‘Rules of Ranging’ Your Rules for Business: Part 6

Commentary In 1757, in the middle of the French and Indian War, Maj. Robert Rogers composed a list ...

Viewpoints October 27, 2019
Embrace New Technology but Stay in Charge

Commentary Today’s business world is one that's becoming ever more asymmetrical, as digital capabilities are rapidly outpacing our ...

Viewpoints October 10, 2019
Make ‘Rules of Ranging’ Your Rules for Business: Part 5

Commentary In 1757, in the middle of the French and Indian War, Maj. Robert Rogers composed a list ...

Viewpoints October 10, 2019
Radical Accountability: How to Be Great

Commentary “On good teams, coaches hold players accountable. On great teams, players hold players accountable,” basketball legend Joe ...

Viewpoints September 26, 2019
Make ‘Rules of Ranging’ Your Rules for Business: Part 4

Commentary In 1757, in the middle of the French and Indian War, Maj. Robert Rogers composed a list ...

Viewpoints September 17, 2019
Thomas Aquinas, Fortitude, and the Green Berets

Commentary The virtue of fortitude has been something I've been reflecting on recently, as I become ever more ...

Viewpoints August 22, 2019
Make ‘Rules of Ranging’ Your Rules for Business: Part 3

Commentary In 1757, in the middle of the French and Indian War, Maj. Robert Rogers composed a list ...

Viewpoints August 15, 2019
Meditations on the Wisdom of Inaction

Commentary I recently read an article published on The Art of Manliness that was written by one of ...

Viewpoints July 30, 2019
Make ‘Rules of Ranging’ Your Rules for Business: Part 2

Commentary In 1757, in the middle of the French and Indian War, Maj. Robert Rogers composed a list ...

Viewpoints July 11, 2019
‘After Action Review’: Thrive in Business and Life With Daily Contemplation

Commentary On May 20, 1521, a young Spanish man named Íñigo López de Loyola was struck in both ...

Advice June 18, 2019
Make ‘Rules of Ranging’ Your Rules for Business: Part 1

In 1757, in the middle of the French and Indian War, Major Robert Rogers composed a list of ...

Viewpoints June 16, 2019
Moral Courage in Leadership: A Non-Negotiable

Commentary “Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage,” former Sergeant Major of the Army ...

Viewpoints May 15, 2019
Cultivating Passions

Commentary Despite what you may think, the opposite of love is not simply hate; the true polar opposite ...

Viewpoints April 30, 2019
Fear Is a Choice

Your company is downsizing. Your marriage is disintegrating. Your startup is failing. Your doctor’s office is calling. What ...

Viewpoints February 25, 2019
Embrace the Chaos (By Planning for It)

Shortly after its founding on Dec. 1, 1989, the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) published a ...

Viewpoints February 8, 2019
Leaving It All on the Field: Selfless Service in Building Your Team

Commentary Late in the summer of 1944, a 28-year-old Catholic priest from a small town in middle-of-nowhere Kansas ...

Viewpoints February 1, 2019
The ‘Be, Know, Do’ Model of Leadership

Commentary Be. Know. Do. These are three common words, but not just simple verbs in the proper context. ...

Viewpoints January 8, 2019
How a Warfighter Mindset Can Help Your Team Thrive

It’s easy to be a happy, motivated member of a team when everything is sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows. ...

Leading With Wisdom January 7, 2019
Memento Mori: Embracing a Life of Consequence

Commentary The author Chuck Palahniuk once wrote: “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever; the goal is ...

Viewpoints January 1, 2019

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