As a P&C insurance agency co-founder, I often apply lessons I learned while serving in the U.S. Army. Some lessons are general in nature, such as the need for discipline, personal accountability, orientation on team goals, a clearly defined mission and state-of-the-art tools. Others are more specific.
Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive editor of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), recently reported that 17 percent of returning veterans are out of work. This is more than twice the national unemployment average of 8 percent.Whats worse, the national average is nearly twice what it was before the...