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Warrior and a Member of a Team | US Army Officer x Dept of Defense Leader | DoD x Industry | Weapons Acquisition x People | Communications x Engineering | CPT Price x H | Science & Technology x Arts | #SundayThoughts

“When you work inside a building with no windows, you end up with the same amount of information.” -Steve Blank on the Pentagon Thanks for joining our offsite today and sharing your insights on #defense #innovation with the leadership of #DoD Industrial Base Policy!

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Heather Price

Warrior and a Member of a Team | US Army Officer x Dept of Defense Leader | DoD x Industry | Weapons Acquisition x People | Communications x Engineering | CPT Price x H | Science & Technology x Arts | #SundayThoughts

11mo

I neither agree nor disagree, but found it an interesting discussion point.

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Richard Caldwell

Systems thinker, life-long learner, facilitator and mentor. I love the challenge of helping people see the big picture to make big decisions. Principal and Founder of Caldgargan & Associates.

11mo

Not sure I totally agree with Steve, I spent 3 years on the Joint Staff, no windows in a space 5 feet by 5 feet. I got plenty of information on a daily basis. But I did not sit on my rear end every day in the same space, I got up and moved around, I talked to people, I wandered the Five Sided wind tunnel everyday. We had a thing called a telephone, POTS I called it, Plain Old Telephone System. There was email, chat and more. I talked to my contacts at the Services and COCOMs daily. I had mentors and people I looked up to. I once had an idea and shared it with one of my mentors, Don Eddington, a few days later he invited me to breakfast up in his territory and I met with a group of his friends. We had a casual conversation about what I proposed for GCCS. A few weeks later i asked Don how I might get my idea moving, he said you already did, you met with the "Breakfast Club" a few weeks ago and they acted on it. I never knew! You can do a lot in a building with no windows. Most of my career was in places with no windows--Cheyenne Mountain, NOC at Ramstein, 4th ATAF Bunker, the 24th NORAD Region Block House and a lot of places with no windows but blue lights. Its what you make of the place you work that matters.

Robert Sheehan

Cyber - Supply Chain Risk Management, Acquisition Security, Program/Acquisition SME. Spoiler alert: these are my unfiltered thoughts.

11mo

I disagree. While working in a windowless building may limit exposure to external information, it does not necessarily mean one lacks the same amount of information- in fact, it may mean they have more information as the tools and data is often in greater numbers. As the saying goes- 'the walls have ears' never ceases to amaze me how fast information spreads.

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JohnK Wright, V

Retired Math Teacher, Retired Army Major, Corps of Engineers. Open to math tutoring, consulting,product and software review, volunteering,etc.

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Jeff Anderson, DMSc, PA-C

Passionate people-first reformer, clinician, and educator. Leading value-based care operations to rearchitect health and care in rural America.

11mo

As a proud recipient of a "Pentagon in the rear-view mirror" picture from Fort America, can confirm.

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John Kerkhoff, PMP, CPLC

Founder and CEO, FRAGO 22 | Proven Systems for Culture Development and Turnover Reduction | Veteran

11mo

Yay another Pentagon Alumni

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