
What Is the Fighter Pilot Business Methodology?
Business CultureGet a clear, practical breakdown of the fighter pilot business methodology—how it drives team alignment, fast decisions, and real results in any industry.

How FLEX Helps Leaders Combat the Cognitive Decline Epidemic
Business Culture, Leadership DevelopmentDiscover how the FLEX method helps leaders combat cognitive decline, sharpen decision-making, and stay ahead with powerful cognitive models like Situational Awareness and OODA Loop.

How to Pick the Right Guest Speaker for Your Event
Business Culture, Goal ExecutionFind a leadership development keynote speaker who delivers results. Afterburner's frameworks help enterprise teams improve execution and achieve business goals.

Four Key Items to Include in Your Next Corporate Event
Business Culture, Strategic PlanningIncrease enthusiasm and produce better results with these four key items for your next corporate event.

Reimagining Your Sales Kickoff: Infusing Innovation and Connection
Business Culture, MotivationSales kickoff reimagined Discover innovative SKO themes for 2024, immersive agendas & team-building ideas to boost engagement for planners and consultants

Want to make better business predictions? Flawless Execution is the answer.
Business CultureThe art of superforecasting accurately can be a huge boon to your organization. Flawless execution gives you the tools you need to do it right.

How to Build Accountability in the Workplace – and Why It Matters
Business CultureLearn why accountability in the workplace is key for businesses of all types, and how to make your team more accountable.

Unlocking the Power of Purposeful Action in Work and Life
Business CulturePurposeful action in work and life Learn what it means, how to create it, and use weekly check-ins to turn purpose into purposeful execution to get results

Empowering Decisions Through Debrief Culture
Business Culture, Debrief, LeadershipUnlock better decisions with Debrief Culture. Explore fear's impact, continuous improvement, and breaking loops for enhanced decision-making.

Mastering Decision-Making in a World of Chaos: Lessons from Harvard Business Review Magazine
Business Culture, Leadership, MotivationExplore how the Harvard Business Review helps in mastering decision making in a challenging world.

How to Build a Team Culture That Brings Out Your Best
Business Culture, Motivation, Strategic PlanningWhy building a solid team culture matters now more than ever, how to build a team culture that powers performance. Get six expert tips.

The Best End-of-Quarter Use of Technology in Business
Business Culture, Goal Execution, Strategic PlanningRead about some tips for the best use of technology in business during the last month of the quarter. Get more resources.

Top Three Threats to Employee Morale in Today’s Economy
Business Culture, Leadership, Motivation, Team BuildingHere’s how to recognize threats to Employee Morale in Today’s Economy and neutralize them before they impact your team’s revenue performance.

How to Unlock the Power of a Common Mental Model
Business CultureLearn how Afterburner can help your team overcome growing pains and take your growth to new heights by developing a common mental model.

Combat the Challenges of Leading Remote Teams
Business CultureAfterburner CEO Joel “Thor” Neeb and members of the Afterburner team share tips to help you combat the unique challenges of working in virtual environments.

Reimagine Your Strategic Alliances in 2020
Business Culture, Debrief, Goal Execution, StrategyW will share the universal principles that companies are employing as they rapidly transform to capture emerging market opportunities.

5 Ways Teams are Aligning for Success in a Virtual Environment
Business Culture, Strategic Planning, StrategyExplore how leaders are aligning their teams around shifting strategies to achieve post-pandemic success.

The Secrets to Making the Right Strategic Shifts During the COVID Crisis
Business Culture, StrategyAfterburner CEO Joel “Thor” Neeb, shares insights from assessments with dozens of companies and results that helped them make the right strategic shifts.

7 Ways Teams are Winning RIGHT NOW in the COVID-19 Disruption
Business CultureIn this webinar, we share the universal principles that companies are employing to capture emerging market opportunities.

Dealing With Task Saturation With Task Shedding and Task Sharing
Business Culture, Task SaturationHow do you make sure you have the right team, and prevent task saturation? One answer lies in the practice of Task Shedding and Task Sharing.

Lessons from the NFL on an Agile Workforce
Business CultureAgile workforce lessons from the NFL: Discover how football culture, teamwork, and playbooks build adaptability, accountability, and faster execution at work.

Is Ongoing Training Included in your 2019 Strategy?
Business CultureThe point of ongoing training is to not only sharpen the employee skills but to also put yourself in a position to jump ahead of the pack.

Digital Transformation: Using Emerging Technology as a Strategic Resource
Business CultureThe key to using technology as a strategic resource is to build momentum. Explore why a digital transformation should be a complete reboot.

Why Simplicity is the Key to Your Business Strategy
Business CultureSimplicity is key when it comes to building your business strategy. We’ve put together some quick tips for you as you implement your business strategy.

Debriefing Check-in: How’s your team doing?
Business CultureDebriefing done right Learn how to run effective team debrief meetings with clear ground rules & check-ins to boost organizational performance and results.
Aligning Your Goals with the Team’s Corporate Mission
Business CultureIn this webinar, we will talk about how to align your goals without losing sight of the HDD or your personal buy-in during the execution phase.

How to Unlock the Power of Diverse Teams
Business CultureIn this webinar, Joel “Thor” Neeb shares insights on building a diverse team and leads to inclusion and success.

How Banks Can Achieve Flawless Execution Like The Military
Business CultureFlawless Execution is not just a goal or a motto. It’s a methodology that was born and bred in the high stakes world of combat aviation.

Cracking the Culture Code with Flawless Execution
Business CultureNurturing a strong, high-performing culture is the most difficult challenge a leader faces. Learn how to crack the culture code with flawless execution.

From The Frontline To The Finish Line: What I Learned From One Performance Team
Business CultureWhat makes a team perform well? Share some lessons learned from the Richard Childress Racing campus in North Carolina, and those teams perform together.

Organizational Gravity: 3 Steps To Defying The Powerful Force Of Obsolescence
Business Culture, LeadershipBalancing the benefits of organizational gravity comes down to maintaining clarity of purpose and approaching every task as an opportunity to plan well.
6 Combat-Proven Keys to Driving Successful Change Management
Business CultureIf you’re like most teams, your individual contributors are performing great – but is this driving successful change management in your organization?

Lessons Learned and Air Force One: The Secret Weapon In Continuous Improvement for Your Company
Business CultureLessons learned are experiences distilled from a project that should be taken into account in future projects to fuel improvement efforts
Operation Debrief: The Secret Weapon of High Performing Teams
Business Culture, Debrief, LeadershipUnlock your team's potential with The ORCA Debriefing Process, the secret to high-performing operations teams.

How to Achieve Organizational Alignment on Your Team
Business CultureOrganizational Alignment takes thought, attention, and communication. Learn to orient your team properly at the outset and have truth mindset.
Improve Your Business Agility with Flawless Execution
Business CultureMany individuals and organizations struggle with business agility, but you don’t have to be one of them! Learn to be profitable in a turbulent environment.

Flawlessly Improve Your Sales Execution Strategy
Business CultureWhen you’re battling constant change, simplicity always beats complexity.

Learning to Learn: Debriefing for Continuous Improvement
Business Culture, Debrief, Goal ExecutionAre you stuck in the cycle of repeating the same mistakes? Debriefing can help you break the cycle and achieve continuous improvement.|

A Foundation for Modern Business Strategy
Business CultureThe business section of your local bookstore is filled with business strategy titles, but we wanted to give some our favorite recommendations to guide you.

Bridging the Continuous Improvement Gap
Business CultureHaving trouble bridging the continuous improvement gap? Check out these helpful tips.

Biggest Mistakes New Agile Teams Make
Business CultureExplore some of the pitfalls that new agile teams may fall into when trying to improve performance, provide insight for avoiding them.

Red Teaming Wasn’t Inspired by a Zombie Flick: A Red Team Book Review
Business CultureWhat is a red team? Red teams are a decision-making improvement tool. Red teaming doesn't make execution plans; they make the plans you execute better.

Use a Red Team to Elevate Your Strategic Business Plan
Business Culture, LeadershipA Red Team is a peer review of strategic or project related plans. This team is asked to review a strategic business plan, and are essential for a business.
[Webinar] Flawless Execution is Agile for Business: Improve Your Agile Team
Business CultureThe business environment is moving faster than ever before requiring Agile teams to embrace change as individuals and as organizations.

“Imperfect But Still Impeccable”- When Failure is not an Option in Business Execution
Business CultureWe discuss the importance of mutual support within your team and how it directly affects your business execution and success: contact us to learn more.

Why I Love Our Stand-Ups: How They Improve Our X-Gaps & Team Accountability
Business CultureHow you can add a Daily Stand-Up to your X-Gap cadence to increase team accountability and improve your execution velocity rate: why we love our stand-ups.

How Organizational Change Management Will Improve Your Business
Business CultureSimple Lessons Learned on the global business battlefield that will improve your Organizational Change Management and Organizational Change Leadership.

The Key to Long-Term Success: Continuous Process Improvement
Business CultureExplains what causes so many businesses to only succeed short term. Long term success is only achieved through continuous process improvement.

How to Avoid Complacency [Part 3]: Establish a Strategy Execution Process
Business CultureHow do we keep complacency from sneaking into a project that runs 6 weeks or 6 months? Develop a strategy execution process, or execution rhythm.

Improve Team Communication with Military Discipline
Business CultureWhen teams and organizations fall short of expectations, team communication is often cited as a root cause. Learn to improve team communication with us.

How a Corporate Leadership Program Can Help You Create a Mission-Oriented Corporate Culture
Business CultureIt is critical to have a corporate leadership program in place to foster a culture of teamwork, collaboration, and trust within the workplace.

How Agile Team Culture Mimics the Historical Patterns of the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Business CultureWhen the lessons of the past are forgotten, history tends to repeat itself, with predictable results. An agile team culture helps prevent misfortune.

Why Your Corporate Team Can’t Afford to Skip Debriefs
Business Culture, Debrief, InspirationDebriefing done right explore how structured debriefs lift corporate performance by 38%, with examples & steps to run project and critical incident reviews

Overcoming Innovation Risk Through Strategic Business Planning
Business Culture, LeadershipManaging and overcoming innovation risk is one of the most overlooked risks in today’s business landscape: good strategic business planning ensures success.

Flawless Execution: Developing A Culture Around Millennials
Business CultureThe reason the military is so successful when it comes to adapting to the needs of millennials is the same reason we operate so effectively: flawless execution.

Why Afterburner is one of Forbes Best Small Companies in America
Business CultureThis month, Forbes Magazine named Afterburner one of the top twenty-five Best Small Companies in America!

Developing a Strategic Plan: Play Chess, Not Checkers
Business Culture, LeadershipDeveloping a Strategic Plan is much more critical than the ‘big’ move, which many believe is the key to long-term success, but this is most often not true.

Star Wars Scrum: Rebel Agility vs. Empire Command and Control
Business CultureIn the Star Wars saga, the Empire is clearly a traditional waterfall, top-down, command-and-control based organization.

Afterburner Turns 20
Business CultureJim "Murph" Murphy here, proud founder & CEO of a twenty-year-old company.

Courage to Execute
Business CultureYou can't avoid inaction. When you do act, it's best to go in with a clear, well-defined mission plan to help you achieve success. Contact us to learn more.

The Red Team: How to Avoid Complacency and Have a Contingency Strategy
Business CultureMany organizations fail to plan for Contingencies and never develop a contingency strategy to fall back on when things don't according to the plan.

Continuous Process Improvement: Understanding LEAN and the FLEX Model
Business CultureUnderstanding continuous process improvement and the Flawless Execution model can help your teams reach success and reduce waste in your organization.

Mission Command – A Military Idea Wins Big in Corporate America
Business CultureWith a Mission Command approach demonstrate the importance of giving your front line people the power to act with a bias to action.

Where Continuous Improvement Ends and Flawless Execution Begins
Business Culture, LeadershipContinuous improvement has brought success to many organizations, but still others have experienced failed roll-outs and lack of ROI.

Agile Marketing: Your 8-Step Super Bowl Game Plan
Business CultureSuper Bowl marketing strategy: Discover an 8-step agile game plan to build and adapt campaigns faster across email, social and ads for game-day impact.

The Pros of Debriefing
Business CultureA project comes to an end, and the team...does what? Smart teams always take time to do some Debriefing and gain Lessons Learned before they move on.

The Six Steps of Mission Planning
Business Culture, LeadershipWe present six simple steps to help close the execution gap altogether.

The Concept Missing From Most Strategic Planning Models: Failure
Business CultureWhen dealing with strategic planning models it's important for organizations to permit failure.|

Planning: What It Is, Why We Do It, and What “Great” Planning Looks Like
Business Culture, LeadershipPlanning Leads to More Effective Strategy and Execution.

