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A few weeks ago, my brother Chris was at CitiField for a Mets game and one of the twins was doing what she likes to do at a game…keep score. An usher walked by, looked down and asked her why she was doing homework at a game. When she explained she was keeping score of …
We are always looking for tangible ways to convey curiosity and anecdotal learning, especially given how time challenged we are. Maybe it’s a little easier for older people…let’s say 40 and older…but for those we encounter in classrooms from seventh grade through grad school, the challenge of cutting through distractions, bombardment of messages, visual stimuli, …
If you hear about something randomly (and listening again is so key) maybe it’s a random thought. If you hear about something three times maybe its becoming something buzzworthy…if you hear about something four or five times…and once is from the pulpit…maybe it is really a thing. Case in point is letterwriting, its value, and its …
Dikembe Mutombo passed away on Monday. September 30 after a long battle with brain cancer. The tributes were long and ongoing and fitting of the impact that the man…not the athlete…the man…had on everyone he touched and everywhere he went. I have several stories from the time we were together with the Knicks and then …
As we turn the page to another month, a few good listens on careers, leadership…and The Masters. You can find all our podcasts from the last seven years here. Almost all are under an hour, and we hope you walk away from the first as well as the last so far, learning a little bit …
As the school year gets deeper as the calendar turns from September to October we often are asks for tips on how we can stay in front of the curve or gain ground looking for new opportunities. One thing that we always remind people…anybody…about is how to make your narrative unique so people fully remember …
I get asked all the time how I manage…well…time, and I use this quite from William Penn that i have on hand. “Time is what we want the most and use the worst.” -William Penn It’s hard, especially without routine or with so many things flashing in and out of what is “important” in the …
If you ever have the opportunity to go to the National Women’s Soccer League offices in Manhattan, you will see one of Commissioner Jessica Berman’s favorite quotes as soon as you get off the elevator. It is from Nelson Mandela, which he used numerous times, about the ability for sport to unify, engage and change …
We did our play “Lombardi” 14 years ago at Circle in the Square theater, one of the characters who people learned the most from was Marie Lombardi, Vince’s wife, played by the great Judith Light. Marie gave fans an insight into the persona of the Hall of Fame coach that few knew about, and it really helped …
On Christmas Eve, 2007, Sports Illustrated…which was quite a big deal then… ran a back of the book story by Scott Price, who had the chance to play then-candidate Barack Obama in a game of basketball. The story showed casual sports fans, who many times are also politics averse, a side of the candidate that …
