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There is a scene in the movie “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” where a young Jake Moore (played by Shia LaBeouf) is walking in Central Park with his mentor and his firm’s managing Lewis Zabel (Frank Langella). Zabel has become disillusioned with the industry and doesn’t understand how he can be told a loss is …
It is one of the classes where I learn the most every semester, a class on the business of brand storytelling. The reason? One of the questions amongst our global group of grad students is to tell me three brands they follow and why. RARELY does any company come up more than once…the outliers this …
A year ago my wife Laura and I talked about what I wanted to do for my 60th birthday. A trip? Well that’s coming next week, a combo of several milestones for us. A party? Nah, not my thing and you can never get to all the people you would want to see anyway. I …
“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 …
We are always looking for tangible ways to convey curiosity and anecdotal learning, especially given how time challenged we are. Maybe it’s a little easier for older people…let’s say 40 and older…but for those we encounter in classrooms from seventh grade through grad school, the challenge of cutting through distractions, bombardment of messages, visual stimuli, …
As we turn the page to another month, a few good listens on careers, leadership…and The Masters. You can find all our podcasts from the last seven years here. Almost all are under an hour, and we hope you walk away from the first as well as the last so far, learning a little bit …
I get asked all the time how I manage…well…time, and I use this quite from William Penn that i have on hand. “Time is what we want the most and use the worst.” -William Penn It’s hard, especially without routine or with so many things flashing in and out of what is “important” in the …
It’s Mid-August and while you are tooling around or on vacation, how about some good listens in less than an hour. Some great learnings here for all. Enjoy. You can catch all of our previous podcasts here. “Fortifying” Sponsorships: We are just off the Olympics and we saw all the brand activation, but how does …
Some great listens on three leaders literally carving paths never taken. From the first…and only…college coach who went through Name Image and Likeness as an athlete on the way to multiple championships, to a world class chess player who also likes to mix it up in the gym…to an entrepreneurial gamer and world champion football …
Some thoughts on a cold January day. I was listening to the TED Radio Hour when host Manoush Zomorodi and her guest Esther Perel talked about the ever-evolving business of relationships, and how personal capital and the “Unwritten resume” has become more and more valuable in any decision-making process, personal or professional. What did she mean? “The unwritten resume” …
