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Before heading off this weekend I got to unpack…literally…from all the learnings at Super Bowl in New Orleans. We did 22 podcasts, helped facilitate close to 70 interviews, staged and helped coordinate a press event talking about the future of engagement with EA Sports, the NFL, NBC, the Rams and Genius Sports (nice summary here) …
To me and many others, Radio Row at Super Bowl is what it will always be called. Like the name change at the former Tappan Zee Bridge…now the Mario Cuomo…or the switch of a stadium name…old habits are hard to break. But alas, as USAA has done with the second biggest live media gathering each …
We use the word iconic sometimes like we do the word hello. At every turn it’s too easy a word to throw around, when in reality must things we refer to as Iconic are not really worthy of that high level of praise or individuality. Icons should be rare air for all of us. That being …
There is always a feeling the competition stirs the competitive juices in the bets of businesses…adjust, or fail, or even worse, be swallowed up by the disruptor. We have seen this constantly in sports when expansion comes along, or a challenger league steps up to fill what they see as a need to force the …
This past week I was catching up with my colleague Terry Lyons on ideas big and small, and we turned to the ideas of what needs to be brought to the table when trying to take a spark of an idea and make it bloom in a time challenged world. Like the book I was …
We started our tenth year for our podcast at Columbia with a pair of business leaders who bring big thinking, varied knowledge, deep entrepreneurial roots, and a great understanding pf people to everything they do. One…Howard Handler, is one of the most respected individuals in sports, music and entertainment, having worked across a myriad of …
This past Monday as I started the undergraduate spring class I do at Fordham I took literally ten minutes to whiteboard “stuff.” Just list out the things that are on the top of peoples minds, and what lies ahead and what that alphabet soup looks like. WOW. Lots of initials like PIF, TGL, GFL, USL, …
This past week I spent time in Milwaukee, Green Bay and back here in New York, even going to the Rangers-Devils game at MSG Thursday night. All of those teams are reflections of their community and have spent years weaving themselves into the fabric of their cities and towns. It is such a key part …
In 2007, when my colleague John Genzale asked me to come up with a class on communications for a fledgling program that had just launched at Columbia in the School of Professional Studies AND did I want to write a book about the topic, I laughed. I had taken a stab at teaching at NYU…a …
Tossing Teddy’s continue to be a fun, and somewhat underappreciated event. From The Maritimes to California, a hockey holiday rite of charity has continued to expand to record numbers for those who see the value. Now it used to be only in Detroit could you throw an object on the ice during a hockey game …
