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February 11, 2022

Create the Environment

Have you watched Ted Lasso? I was late to the party, but I’m glad I finally showed up. There is something magical about how Ted focuses on creating an environment for his team to grow. And once they grow… they start to win. What’s the environment before Ted arrives? Everyone…

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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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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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March 4, 2021

What are You Most Afraid of?

We used to visit the kids’ grandparents in the mountains of Montana every so often as they were growing up. The snowcapped peaks are majestic, and the sky there really is bigger. What’s also bigger there? Bears. We would go hiking or walking in the area surrounding the cabin, and…

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November 19, 2020

The SAFE Way to Innovate Like Google

With most of his day gone, and the cortisol pulsing through his body from a stressful day, Paul began to day dream. His mind slipped back to a few years prior when he had fiddled with an idea in his spare time. Paul’s boss saw his eyes glass over and…

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April 30, 2020

Plans Change – 6 Ways to Find Opportunity During Uncertain Times

Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net During the Great Plague of London in 1665, Isaac Newton decided that he should leave his studies at Trinity College in Cambridge and head to his family farm roughly 60 miles away. Here, far from the horrors besieging the big city, Newton placed…

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June 24, 2019

Rodgers and Hammerstein reshape the modern musical by taking risks

In 1943, two of Broadway’s elite, composer Richard Rodgers and librettist and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, got together to write a new kind of musical. They were tired of the haphazard way musicals were being put together: hire a couple of stars, surround them with a large chorus of beautiful…

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