Philip Martin, Author at Philip J. Martin

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November 24, 2021

Leap and Learn

“Phil!” I looked up a little bewildered. The voice belonged to David Hall, the president of the cable network I worked for. Here he was, the head Honcho himself leaning out of his car window and calling to me, the security guard at the gate. “Yes, sir” I eventually…

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November 5, 2021

The Power of Playing with Possibilities

“Get back to work!” Who was the last person that gave you that command? Did you say it to yourself? What we really mean by this is that it's time for hard, focused labor. It's time to put our nose to the grindstone, keep our shoulder to the wheel,…

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August 13, 2021

Trust in Yourself

“Silenzio Bruno!” If you’ve seen the Disney movie “Luca” you know exactly what this means. Luca and his new friend Alberto start to race down a dangerous hill on a home made Vespa (yes it’s as rickety as it sounds). Luca is scared, and the doubt in his head is…

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July 15, 2021

Act on Your Dream

“I’ve always been a dreamer. My mum taught me to never give up and to reach for the stars – advice I followed quite literally.” Sir Richard Branson On Sunday, July 11, 2021, Sir Branson turned his dream into a reality. It took him 17 years of dedicated work from…

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July 8, 2021

Practice Makes Better

Photo by Justiniano Adriano from Pexels “If you’re not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he’ll be ready to take your job.” - Brooks Robinson, Former Professional Baseball Player “We’re talking about practice!” Former NBA all-star guard Allen Iverson ranted about the criticism to him missing practices. “. . . I…

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May 28, 2021

Deliver the Truth

Telling the truth is one of our cardinal rules for life. But we tend to think of the truth as the opposite of a lie, instead of the foundation for communicating and connecting. If we see something that “rings true” we don’t mean that it isn’t a lie. Instead we…

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May 17, 2021

Just Stand

Sarah was a young actor, and this was the first time she was on the stage under my direction. She started her monologue and I quickly realized she didn’t know what to do with her lines or her body, so she aimlessly wandered on stage. Her eyes were glazed over…

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April 29, 2021

Leadership is 90% Creating a Team

What if the movie Die Hard didn’t star Bruce Willis, but Frank Sinatra? That was the plan from an old contract, but that would have meant a 73 year old Sinatra running around barefoot and crawling through air ducts! Or what if our iconic Rocky was actually played by Robert…

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April 15, 2021

Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing

(Image available on Pexels) The country is getting back to work. We are getting back to work. And there is so much to do. It is easy to get distracted by the abundance of “little things” that have been piling up for a year. Our most important task is to…

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April 2, 2021

No One Way – 5 tips to pursue success

If you know college basketball, you know Coach K. Coach Krzyzewski is the legendary head coach at Duke University who, over the span of 40 seasons, has taken his team to the final four 12 times. (That’s a big deal!) Grant Hill, one of his star players from 1990 to…

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