Posted on Feb 14, 2015
MAJ David Vermillion
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I remember retiring from the military and entering the civilian workforce and using the military style leadership, please don't do it, it doesn't work. The "you will do" attitude creates problems. You must learn to be more polished, this was my pitfall.
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SFC Walt Littleton
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I retired as a SFC and my first civilian job was a manager for a contracting company which sold commissary products to state and county inmates incarcerated. Without going to deep it was a family owned company where it was the 2nd generation who worked in the family business their whole life. Had a lot of issues with chain of command, professionalism structure (lack of) and poor civilian leaders (not family). I was promoted as a regional manager in charge of 5 facility's and covering 13 states. They worked me to death and I always went back to my military training to get the job done. I resigned due to the amount of travel and learned a lot about civilian leadership and how to negotiate with them. Retired now!
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