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What do the reigning NBA Championship Coach and one of women’s sports most successful commissioners have in common Michigan’s Dusty May (good piece here by Yahoo’s Jeff Eisenberg) with people you may not know like Jack Richason, Will Conley, John and Joe Owen, as well as Lawrence Frank, the fictional character Ollie McLellan, and countless …
This past week there was a great New York Times editorial piece by Higo Lindgren on the value of starting a band. While maybe it’s not a “musical” band, which the piece was focused on, but the value of banding together like minded people to break silos, share ideas and interact to stimulate creativity and …
This past weekend we made the trip to our new accountant to get things aligned for the past year and what lies ahead. He looked at all the 1099’s we had for the year and smiled a bit. “At least it looks like you don’t have to worry about a job cut with so many …
Let’s get this out of the way…St. Patrick had the better PR person but St Joseph owns the food. St. Joseph, he preferred to stay in the background. However if the devil (pun intended) is in the details, I will take pastry over salted red meat every day. And today if I were to make a …
This time of year as we move quickly closer to March Madness I like to look around the celebrations on TV or in person and notice those young people around the bench getting to experience the thrill of victory or the agony of defat for the first time. While the larger schools, and usually the …
This time of year can end up being the grind for those who work in team sports. The cyclical nature of the business of games, from college to the highest level of pro sports ends up being rinse and repeat, regardless of whether the work being done is achieving the goal od growing personally and …
There are some who say that the entity known as Media Row on Super Bowl week has become a messy mix. Well, if you go in unprepared, if you don’t pick your spots, if you aren;t open minded to absorb and listen and learn or if your expectations are now what they were ten years …
I will do a summary of our learnings and experiences from Media Row later this week, but first some thoughts on curious learning and the dangers of not doing so. There is so much back and forth about Bad Bunny and the halftime show and on and on. I got to chime in here before …
If you work in and around communications in sports in North America, this is a week you should hopefully love, but you may hate. The convergence of winter team sports tied with mega events like The Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics make this a mad scramble for those looking to cut through clutter and …
A while ago Dr. Harvey Schiller was talking about how the most successful business grow. The people at the top do drive culture and results, but sometimes even more important was the ability to be selfless and let the success speak for itself. There is a big difference between ROI…what we know as Return on …
