Alden Mills

Five Days of Cold, Wet, Grueling Training on Less Than Four Hours’ Sleep Hell Week nights are definitely the most memorable part of the week, at[...]

Crafting Stories for Sales Glory So you have a great idea, a great product, a great company, a great purpose – so, now what? The best products in the[...]

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;[...]

Alden Mills on High-Performance Leadership I AM SO FIRED UP about my new book out March 26th, 2019! A special shout-out to my #UnstoppableTeam for[...]

The student body at the Naval Academy is called The Brigade, and it’s neatly organized into thirty-six “teams,” which are referred to as companies[...]

I thought I knew what drowning felt like. I had squirmed my way through drown-proofing, acting more like a worm than a dolphin in the water and[...]

A U.S. Navy SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV) is a 20-foot-long black tube with a bulbous front end and a large five-bladed propeller at the other end.[...]

The first 23 months of my US Naval Academy service could best be described as if I were playing a starring role in the Charles Dickens’s novel “A[...]

One of Steve Martin’s great films is “The Jerk” – I grew up loving this movie. He stars as a budding entrepreneur who stumbles into success with an[...]

Improvising is a habit like exercising and planning, and it takes time and practice to make it a habit. The ability to improvise is not a talent that[...]