LinkedIn: The 5-Minute Drill for Executive Networking Success is written for executives and transitioning military leaders to see the immediate benefit of using LinkedIn to network, build better teams, land new opportunities, pivot, change sectors, get promoted, and better merchandise their talents, expertise, and skill sets.Executives are busy people and LinkedIn is an extremely valuable resource. Once leaders know how to use LinkedIn for their desired pu...

Concerns about privacy are not new. Since time immemorial, we humans have valued and guarded our privacy, often jealously or violently. It is therefore no surprise that privacy online is of such great concern in our connected world. Today, when we conduct so much of our life online--bank transactions, credit card payments, transmission of personal messages and images to friends and family--it is completely understandable that we should be concerned about the privacy of our communication and i...

Like all bright, academically-talented young people, Christine Ruff expected to find her dream job right out of college. She graduated with honors and right away found a biology research lab that was a perfect fit. But when the lab's funding was slashed, and Christine got laid off, she realized that the downturn had come home.Christine's natural inclination being to always land on her feet, she saw an opportunity that others may have missed--for learning life lessons from the rigorous, challe...

Lori Ruff was an identity thief whose real identity remained unknown for almost six years after her death. As a teenager, she could not cope with the divorce of her parents and moved away. She stole a birth certificate of a young girl who died in a fire then used the certificate to get an identification card in the state of Idaho. From there, she moved to Texas and changed her name to Lori Erica Kennedy. She would then acquire a new Social Security number and other documents in her false n...