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We will attend and support only if it does not distract from the work being done.” Pretty simple and self-evident statement, right? Why should it even be news when a leader says such things? In most instances it really shouldn’t be, it should be common sense. But we remain in a time when the news is …
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) …
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 …
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 …
One of the best…and the worst…parts of being in the sports industry on the team and league side is its cyclical nature. Although there is rarely an offseason these days, you have a start date, at least some fashion of an end date, dates of events along the way and a cadence that can be …
“He wasn’t there because his publicist told him to be there, and to be nice. He was there because he wanted to be.” As we head towards 2025 there are so many hoping for a retooling or a reset on where their path is going, and the world keeps brining us some new titles of …
“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 …
I have always been a fan of second tier Bowl games. From the Garden State Bowl to the Astro Blue Bonnet Bowl, those games used to bring future stars into our homes, as well as schools we didn’t often see on football Saturdays. The relevance of many to the general public, and in some cases …
As we head into Thanksgiving week, some quick hits form the week behind while we still are missing our time in Italy. If you missed the recap, you can still find it here. Paul-Tyson Did What it was supposed to do: So much hand wringing over what the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight was or wasn’t. …
“Walk the balance between humility and confidence.” There were so many tidbits of wisdom that applied to every one of the over five hundred attendees at the Columbia University Sports Management Conference in Lerner Hall on October tenth, but that quote from Unrivaled Basketball Commissioner Micky Lawler in the opening panel on emerging sports helped …
