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My name is Ryan Evans.

I'm the CEO of W on the rocks.

In this episode I sat down with Major General J.P. McGee of the US Army.

He is heading the Army's Talent Management Task Force, which has been identified

as the Chief Staff of the Army as his top priority.

This task force is making some big moves on changing the way the Army promotes and selects its leaders.

Starting with officers and eventually moving to the NCO Corps,

if you're in the Army, you're definitely going to want to listen to this one.

So you've been given a pretty important job and one that's the top priority of the

chief of the army.

How did this come about?

Well Ryan, first off, thanks for being allowed to be on your show and to be able to be part of this podcast,

that's such an important audience.

The history of talent management in the Army is a fairly interesting one in that it's developed really over longer than about a decade.

People have been talking about this a lot.

I think the initial ideas of how to bring this came out of West Point

through an organization called the Office of Economic Manpower Analysis out of at Point is formally headed up 10 years ago by

a gentleman named Dr. then Colonel Casey Wardinsky who's now the assistant section of the

Army of Manpower Reserve Affairs so he's one of the intellectual fathers of this. And then as then

Lieutenant General McConvall became the G1, he embraced this as an approach and he stood up

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