CONTINUING TO EXCEL WHILE UNDERGOING TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE

I thought I’d seen plenty of tough missions in my previous 34 years in the military before I got hit with what seemed like mission impossible:  Relocate my largely civilian workforce of 1500 from Ft Monmouth, New Jersey to Aberdeen, Maryland[1] while continuing to maintain 24x7 support to those units engaged in combat; outfitting the next units to rotate into the fight[2]; AND moving out on the Army’s Chief of Staff’s number one priority to modernize the tactical communications network.[3]  Those were just the no-fail missions we had on our plate...