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Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter provide leaders an opportunity to voice opinions and motivate followers. Meanwhile, this opportunity does not come without a cost.

 

In the once-popular NBC prime-time sitcom Friends, there is an episode where Rachel decides to take up smoking in an attempt to make inroads with her boss, because her colleague who takes smoke breaks gets more opportunities to talk with her boss, which ultimately leads to her suggestions being accepted over Rachel’s. In this case, Rachel is a victim of workplace favoritism, and she takes a comical approach to ingratiate herself with her boss.

The American workforce is facing a major shift in its composition. According to a report by the Pew Research Center1, millennials, at 35 percent of the workforce, are now the dominant generation in the American workplace. This trend will become even more extreme as most baby boomers, 29 percent of the American labor market, are set to retire within the next decade.

Do leaders actually matter? It's a question posed by many.

Every Ranger School graduate remembers their Ranger buddy. I have very few memories of Ranger School that don’t include my Ranger buddies being there with me.

Mentorship and coaching have been intermingled for far too long. It’s time to examine the differences.

Ranger School helped forge me into the leader I am today.