When I was a business school student, veterans of the U.S. nuclear submarine fleet surrounded me. These men were mature beyond their years and happy to be verbally jousting in the relatively unconfined, sunny arena of a graduate-school classroom. The submariners did well as students, and employers eagerly competed to hire them.
Why would such naval service be a good background for a business career? One classmate explained it this way, “If you can perform well with other men in a Continue reading...