by Lewis Nelson | 21 May 2020 | Career, Veterans
Originally posted on LinkedIn Bottom Line Up Front – Every job I’ve had since the military involved networking, luck, and knowing what I wanted to do. If you skip to the end, I highlight my key lessons. I didn’t have a typical transition from the...
by Lewis Nelson | 25 Aug 2018 | Career
Originally published on LinkedIn Product Manager appears to be one of those ambiguous job titles that can mean completely different things in different industries or even different companies within industries. For the past 11 months, I’ve been a product manager of a...
by Lewis Nelson | 31 Dec 2017 | Career
Originally posted on LinkedIn It’s that time of the year again, when so many of us will arbitrarily make very broad, hard-to-measure New Year’s resolutions… “get healthy,” “spend more time with my kids,” “drink...
by Lewis Nelson | 25 Aug 2017 | Career, MBA
Originally published on LinkedIn When I applied to the Executive MBA program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, I didn’t even know what I planned to do with the degree. I figured the worst case scenario was my MBA would be a valuable tool for...
by Lewis Nelson | 12 May 2017 | Career, Leadership
Originally published on LinkedIn Thank you to everybody for the tremendous support after my article earlier this week, “It Took Me Nearly 40 Years to Figure Out What I Want to Do with My Life.” Not only the comments, but some of the heartfelt messages I...
by Lewis Nelson | 3 May 2017 | Career, MBA
Originally published on LinkedIn For as long as I can remember, I always had a word to describe myself. From early childhood through graduating college, it was very easy: I was an athlete. After college, I enlisted in the U.S. Army the day after the 9/11 attacks and...