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We’ve hosted many of today’s business and philanthropic leaders at our “InDay” guest speaker series over the years. As a Marine Corps veteran myself, it was an honor to welcome General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal to our offices in Mountain View last Friday.

After a storied 35+ year military career General McChrystal is now focused on helping American companies succeed in today’s challenging global economic climate. During his time with us General McChrystal shared his views of leadership, the challenges facing the US in today’s global economy, and his personal passion for helping veterans returning to civilian life (his passion for “no man left behind” burns brightly).  Many of the General’s experiences translate very closely to today’s business challenges:

Come every new year, getting back in shape is often on our minds. To help with our new year’s resolutions, the first InDay of 2012 was focused on Health and Wellness. Last year Mountain View set the bar on January InDay for health and wellness, but this year the rest of the world showed Mountain View how it is done. Around the world, our offices hosted a wide range of health and wellness activities from yoga classes to Quadbiking.

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Mountain View LinkedIn Olympics

in-day: noun
A day each month when LinkedIn employees take a break from their daily tasks and inspire each other, learn something new and give back to the community.

inDay at LinkedIn began in July of 2010 and was the focus of Team Inspire (Meg Garlinghouse,  MaryAnne Viegelmann, and myself) in 2011.  Each month inDay has a theme which gives employees a suggested team direction and vision on how we could spend our day.

At LinkedIn, we have Hackdays once per month, where we encourage employees to form teams, work on anything they can dream of, present their hacks to the company, and compete for prizes. We make some of these hacks publicly available by putting them up on our experimental site, LinkedIn Labs.

Today, I’m happy to announce 4 new additions to LinkedIn Labs from Veterans Hackday: