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It’s Super Bowl Sunday, but before we get to all the amazing content and storytelling we enjoyed during our three days on what used to be Radio Row, now Media Row in New Orleans, here are three recent pods of impact that touch on everything from grit to entrepreneurialism to the growing space of collectibles …
“Are You Willing to Cross The Street?” That question came not from a leadership seminar but from our friend and colleague Ray Negron, who has worked for the Yankees for over 50 years and always brings a different point of view to our students at Columbia. The rhetorical question came not from him, but from his longtime …
We have written several times on storytelling and its continued value in all forms; knowing who you are, what you do and being able to communicate that fact simply and succinctly in a world of white noise is more valuable today than ever before. Lots of screaming going on, but when you listen, what are …
It’s Mid-August and while you are tooling around or on vacation, how about some good listens in less than an hour. Some great learnings here for all. Enjoy. You can catch all of our previous podcasts here. “Fortifying” Sponsorships: We are just off the Olympics and we saw all the brand activation, but how does …
Last month I read an amazing piece in the New York Times by Jessica Shattuck, about of all things, playing catch, and how this simplest f acts connected her with her son in times when there was sometimes a void between them, She was not a helicopter parent or a sports fanatic, she didn’t know …
“That’s all I want in life. Is more,” he told me three years ago. “More time. More life. More music. More games. More reading. More love. More everything. I’m the luckiest guy in the world.” There has been so much written and watched about the passing of Bill Walton this week I cannot do it …
It’s not often you think of a beekeeper, an oversized athlete and an accomplished but grumpled NBA head coach in the same vein, but we do today. Why? They exemplify the storytelling of sports, two of them embody what smart, quick storytelling in the moment can do, and the third reminds us of the value …
Sports, at its core, is often viewed as a transactional business, a zero-sum game. After all, if you leave it for what it is, the score is there when the game ends. Somebody wins, somebody loses. However, the business that surrounds that score, that result, by those who actually play, is much more fluid. The …
The simple things are usually the best activated, and we wanted to point out two tied to the great game of baseball. First was the story this week that Cracker Jack was teaming with Hall of Famer Dave Winfield and the National Baseball Hall of Fame to rekindle the value of the product we remember …
As we get deeper into the start of the year, we highlight three recent listens of note from our just completed eighth year of the CUSP Show, which I continue to host with Tom Richardson. You can listen to over 35o episodes here, but these three recent ones cover the growth of sports using Artificial …
