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A few weeks ago, following the layoffs at the NBA and ESPN, I wrote this piece on the underappreciated value of institutional knowledge and it seemed to have resonated with a great deal of people. Yesterday while visiting our local library…talk about a place undervalued in the institutional knowledge space…I came across the checkout slip …
There is so much focus on NIL and what the return will or will not be outside of some social posts and quick cash of various levels that you sometimes forget about the long term sustainable career programs some brands have built out around college athletes of every shape and size. I was reminded of …
There was a time a few years ago when the Big 12 held a one-off basketball media day in New York City. The league wasn’t playing their postseason tournament there for men’s basketball, like the ACC and Big Ten were doing, nor did they add any schools who were in the area. They used it …
Saturday I was in the Verizon store begrudgingly getting a new phone and I was talking to a mom and her daughter next to me. The mom. About my age, was bemoaning all this “technology” and how the ‘80’s and the ‘70’s was better. I laughed and looked at the daughter, who was 22 and …
They have always been the iconic role models that have shaped thousands of lives, from little league to the highest level of competition. They are dedicated and driven, mercurial and emotional, volunteers and mercenaries, teachers and mentors. They are coaches. Yet for all the time, effort and value they put in, these men and women usually never …
Thanks to our summer intern Drew Antin, we are able to pull together some summaries from our podcast recently that touch on diversity of thought, action, business and disruption. Here are three short and effective listens for the weekend and the early summer. You can listen to all of our episodes here. Christian Ponder on …
There have been so many worthy tributes written about our friend Jim Hague, take the time to read a few of them here and here. While I made my way to St. Paul’s The Apostle Church in Jersey City Thursday for his last sendoff I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect. The high school coaches …
We are always on the quest for best practices, and sometimes we find them in the most unlikely of places. Case in point, the social media storytelling tied to Fleet Week NYC. I met Marycate Walsh, a U.S. Naval Academy grad now working on the communications side of the Navy, through a mutual friend a …
We have had an amazing few months listening to people from a wide swath of backgrounds tell their stories of success and innovation. Thanks to our summer intern, Drew Antin, we can doculent and summarize many of these podcats, so no time better to get it going than a holiday weekend. First up we listen …
Last winter the world was captivated by Argentina taking the World Cup in Qatar. What made it even more emotional was the fact that legendary announcer, and Argentinian, Andres Cantor, was on the call for Telemundo. Not only did we have the sound of Cantor’s voice, we got to see him through a feed that …