Strategic Planning: June 8, 2021
Title: Military Principles for
Business Success: The Dirty Details of Planning and Follow-Up
Presented By: Tom Ruby, Ph.D., Colonel, USAF (Ret.); CEO of Bluegrass Critical Thinking Solutions; Former Vice Dean, Air Command and Staff College.
Description: Once you have your desired objective and have validated your assumptions, you must select a course of action to achieve your objectives. This requires you to lay out a specific set of tasks in a time-sequenced order, each with specific success criteria. You have to keep to your schedule and make sure all the individual tasks are being done. Then you will see success!
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to comprehend the importance of selecting from among several courses of action
- Participants will be able to comprehend the importance of developing tasks to achieve objectives and assigning tasks to a specific person
- Participants will be able to comprehend the difficulty of measuring progress and staying on track.
Biography: Tom Ruby is a retired Air Force Colonel who served 26 years on active duty in positions from Squadron Intelligence Officer, to Chief of Doctrine for the AF ISR Enterprise, to Chief of Special Programs for the Air Force Materiel Command. He was Associate Dean of the Air Command and Staff College where he developed exchange programs with the NATO School, the French École Militaire, the German General Staff College and Poland’s National Defense University. He served on General Petraeus’ Joint Strategic Assessment Team as well as in three combat deployments. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Kentucky, and actively mentors graduate students through the American Political Science Association. He is widely published and speaks globally on topics from critical thinking, to leadership, to strategy, to morality in warfare. He is currently CEO of Bluegrass Critical Thinking Solutions, a business and Defense consulting firm.
