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What's Your IED? How to Add Value in Explosive Situations

A Marine combat veteran on staying in control when everything around you blows up, and why adding value is the way through.

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TEDxRaleigh: What's Your IED?

A moment from Michael's TEDxRaleigh talk on adding value in explosive situations.

DOMINATE Your Business

Leadership isn't motivation. It's an operating system.

Michael J. Penney with Clay Clark

A long-form conversation with Clay Clark.

Sgt. Penney at Outpost Shrine, Kajaki

Marine Corps combat camera interview, Kajaki, Afghanistan, May 2011.

On the gun line at Kajaki

Michael on the Special Application Scoped Rifle, Kajaki, Afghanistan, 2011.

Leadership Strategies for Market Domination

How the 5 Paragraph Operating System turns chaos into execution.

Kajaki, Afghanistan - May 24, 2011

Outpost Shrine, Kajaki, with the Police Advisory Team.

Marines Patrol Outpost Shrine (DVIDS)

Public-domain Marine Corps combat camera footage from Outpost Shrine, May 23, 2011.

Clarity Breeds Execution

Nothing is impossible with a plan everyone understands.

The 5 Paragraph Business Plan for Startups

A military-proven plan that fits on one page.

Lucius Q. C. Lamar by John F. Kennedy

From Profiles in Courage, read by Michael J. Penney.

Your Presence Is Your Command

Lead by example, and action will follow.
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In The Media

Talks, podcasts, essays, and features.

TALK
What's Your IED? How to Add Value in Explosive Situations
TEDxRaleigh · March 2016
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PODCAST
Infantry Marine Turned Podcaster & Military Entrepreneur
Military Entrepreneur Show · March 2016
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PODCAST
Michael Penney Discusses His Organization, 5 Paragraph, and Being a Conservative Veteran Entrepreneur
Live with Michael Bluemling Jr. — Ep. 78 · February 2020
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PODCAST
Taking Military Operations Format and Applying it to Business
Time to Shine Today — Ep. 131 · September 2020
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PODCAST
Your Business Plan is a Military Mission
Jay Izso Podcast · October 2020
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ESSAY
Ignore The Awful Times, And Concentrate On The Good Ones
The War Horse · September 2016
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PODCAST
Sharing Sea Stories, Business Plans, and Transition Tips with a USMC Vet
SuccessVets · February 2016
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SLIDES
What's Your IED? — the TEDxRaleigh slides
SlideShare · 2016
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SERVICE
Marines Patrol Outpost Shrine, Kajaki, Afghanistan
DVIDS — U.S. Marine Corps combat camera · May 2011
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THE ARCHIVE

Past Shows

Cigars and Sea Stories, The 5P Show, the Truth explanations and The Michael J. Penney Show. Pick a show or search every episode. About the archive →

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