Breakout with Portfolio Career Employment Principles and Strategies

What evidence can suggest that a single military operation called a "breakout” at any time or at any place in history can so compel the pace and result of a larger conflict, except that retrospection tells us otherwise, or that for many reliving an event renders it immutable as life-defining and life-directing?

What has this to do with choosing Avranches, France as a place to which we can assign, at least geographically, the very nature of Portfolio Career Employment promise, wonder and purpose?

 

                     August 1, 1944 – Avranches, France

A Europe at war found itself here "symbolically” if not technically deadlocked in the early weeks following the Allied invasion of Normandy. The successful military breakout conducted by General George Patton’s Third Army has by many accounts been assigned almost mythical status as having shortened the course of the war in Europe, thus literally saving tens of thousands of lives, on both sides. The sacrifices made by our “Greatest Generation” there (indeed, at countless other places of “ultimate sacrifice”), both in lives lost and brave efforts too staggering in number to count, often bring many of us to reflect if only as a simple measure of our gratitude. What is left but to remember, tell their stories, preserve their heroism? They are leaving us moment by moment in ever growing numbers.

Today, Portfolio Career Employment (PCE) principles and strategies remember the essence of that monumental event. PCE signals its dedication to the legacy of those participants. In the content and methodologies of such work it seeks to inspire those deadlocked in social and cultural dissonance, or steeped in uncertainty about how to express their dreams and personal goals through their life’s work, or adrift in frustration over understanding challenges to their health and well-being. Perhaps there are those who seek only simple improvement in matters of practical living. And what for those who strive for the fullest satisfaction only a "the road less traveled" can bring? To "breakout" personally, socially, professionally, intellectually, whether for self-gratification or excellence in career development, is to virtually gaze from a bluff overlooking a small French town and be reminded that effort brings honor, vision compels creativity and courage is not daunting when accompanied by hope.