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I love learning from coaches and one of the biggest areas most talk about…but most in business hate to…is learning from loss. No matter who you are in the zero sum game of sport, you will lose probably more than you win, and while we dwell on the big moments…everyone’s fans are the best, our …
In 1997, the USTA unveiled the massive expansion of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, which included Arthur Ashe Stadium, the largest tennis facility in the world, one that would eventually bring a massive amount of yearly visitors and revenue to the US Open. Having been in and around The Open (then with the WTA, a …
Today’s guest post is by John Owen, one of our sports management students who recently spent time travelling…and learning with the Columbia Women’s Basketball team on their summer trip to Japan. I asked John to provide his thoughts after watching the great Apple TV documentary on the UConn wmen’s team, and how one of their …
There is the old saying that things come in threes, although i really believe that occurrs only when you don’t put together similar instances after you have seen one. This week there were not three…but four instances where we lost someone, and all of them in various ways remindied me of the song by the …
What a year…AGAIN!. Still we have time for reflection and nostalgia, and while I am a big believer of taking a pause, year round really, and figuring what got done and what could be done differently personally and professionally, I am not a big one on lists of the past or for that matter, predictions of …
“Do you have a card?” is still one of the questions that comes up after the first initial business encounter. What that means has changed over time…virtual, a scan, something else that goes easy to my phone. There are plenty of eays to easily share information in the cloud. However the tangible part of holding, …
“Bask not in the glow of all you have accomplished; Enjoy the light just beginning to rise around you as well.” – me ? I was sitting on this early Saturday morning looking at our beautiful tree and thinking how lucky we are to have what we have here in our little spot in New …
“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 2024 there are so many hoping for a retooling or a reset Chief Innovation Officer, Metaverse Journey Builder, Chief Resilience Officer, Chief Happiness Officer…we have written about the …
One of the best learning experiences we have each semester is when we ask our students what brans are on their watch list and why. While you usually get the conventional…Nike, adidas, Tesla, Google, Celsius, HOKA…we always get some great surprises which makes us want to know more. Some of those this semester included: Lobos …
This was a labor of love and learning compiling these books. A few notes. I read them all, so it’s not just a recommendation or a favor. We ended up heavy on NY, baseball and hoops this year, but they are not just for NY fans. Also these were all published in 2023. I had …
