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As we wade through the unchartered waters of business life on hiatus it’s always good to draw from best practices past, especially ones that can help lead you forward. An example as in my basement file cabinet, here I keep the notebooks and legal pads that have spanned the better part of 30 years …
It’s the weekend and its raining. Where the normally would have been March Madness, Little League, lacrosse, MLS, MLB even this year the first season of XFL, there are replays, simulations and esports. So as the pause continues with COVID-19, where can we find a repository of all that is being shown, best practices learned …
Every day I talk to people a little younger in various places: Atlanta, Minneapolis, Manhattan. And although none are as bold and clueless as the knuckleheads on the beach in Florida last week for spring break, many say the same thing; this Coronavirus thing is a little overblown, the numbers are being overplayed and even …
Friday night I randomly flipped through ESPN’s On demand menu and found “Requiem For The Big East,” which I hadn’t seen in quite a while, so I decided to watch for a few minutes; and then an hour and a half. I watched as a reminder of those original days of basketball but also to …
I never really chose the path to working for myself; it was kind of forced upon me when our MMA venture, the IFL, folded 12 years ago, and really three colleagues, Meredith Geisler, John Genzale and Jon Pessah, made me jump in the pool. With that came 12 years of learning, including how to best …
For the past 12 years at the top of our weekly newsletter we have listed a little “spanning the globe” list of events going on. This week, sadly, that list is virtually nonexistent due to the ongoing issues with coronavirus cancellations. That’s the bad news we now know. The good news is that we live …
There was a time when we were starting to wind down the International Fight League 12 years ago that the late Jay Larkin, who was heading the business at the time, suggested we do fights in a warehouse with all the lights and pageantry and maybe a few fans in a few rows. After all, …
There was a time not too long ago where the NBA All Star Weekend was becoming a slog; players opting out, questions about value and cost, if there was a need or interest any more. Most leagues face the same and bigger issues with midseason (or in the case of the NFL postseason) breaks to …
As the XFL reaches week two and beyond, the tempered enthusiasm now moves to what’s next and sustainability for the longer term. In truth its hard to say for sure what the viability of a spring football league, outside of the CFL, will actually be; many have tried, and none, other than a bit of …
You could not watch more than five minutes of Sunday nights Academy Awards without hearing the value of “storytelling” coming up as the essential tool for changing opinion, influencing decision and making the world a better place. Storytelling. Again and again. More valued today than ever. The ability to tell one’s story, be it individual, …