Carlos Rivera was admittedly a “happy-go-lucky” enlisted man in the U.S. Navy in the mid-1970s. He hadn’t given much consideration to his future until a colleague politely urged him to give it some thought.
“He said, ‘Hey, what’s your plan?’” says Rivera, president and CEO of Vysnova Partners. “I told him I had no idea. At that point, I was in college for a couple of years and I said I guess I would finish my degree and become an officer. ‘And then what?’ he said. And he kept…
Carlos Rivera was admittedly a “happy-go-lucky” enlisted man in the U.S. Navy in the mid-1970s. He hadn’t given much consideration to his future until a colleague politely urged him to give it some thought.
“He said, ‘Hey, what’s your plan?’” says Rivera, president and CEO of Vysnova Partners. “I told him I had no idea. At that point, I was in college for a couple of years and I said I guess I would finish my degree and become an officer. ‘And then what?’ he said. And he kept…