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There are many experiences that are throwback at The Masters each year, and because of the prestige of the event, there is a perception that few things change. Cheese and Pimento, no cell phones etc etc. However, there is lots to listen and learn about how the event is also moving forward in areas like …
The opportunity to honor the legacy of Roberto Clemente in baseball seems to always be ongoing. His stature amongst the ever-growing number of Latinos in baseball on and off the field remains legendary, but for those not on the long side of history there are sometimes questions into what made Clemente special. One of the …
Even at big events on the grandest of stages, little things matter. They matter also on small stages thrust into the spotlight as well. Such was the case in four fun stops last week in and around the Big Apple. First was a night at The Paley Center for what was essentially a coming out …
It’s been a week since we were roaming the halls of The Hynes Convention Center, where we again came away with more from the MIT Sloan Sports Business Conference than what we gave. Some key takeaways from the rooms and the halls not just from the weekend, but for what to watch going forward. You …
It’s great to have convergence at a time of year when we are all looking ahead to brighter, longer days as we shake off the cold and the gloom. It’s also nice when two of those events crossover. Today is Groundhog Day, and yes the critter in Pennsylvania saw his shadow…so six more weeks of …
There is always a feeling the competition stirs the competitive juices in the bets of businesses…adjust, or fail, or even worse, be swallowed up by the disruptor. We have seen this constantly in sports when expansion comes along, or a challenger league steps up to fill what they see as a need to force the …
In 2007, when my colleague John Genzale asked me to come up with a class on communications for a fledgling program that had just launched at Columbia in the School of Professional Studies AND did I want to write a book about the topic, I laughed. I had taken a stab at teaching at NYU…a …
There is a senior executive I know who constantly reminds his communications person that he needs deals, not more friends. As we start a new year and I think back on all the new people I met this year, I find that very sad. I was having lunch and then some calls with colleagues who …
“Are You Willing to Cross The Street?” That question came not from a leadership seminar but from our friend and colleague Ray Negron, who has worked for the Yankees for over 50 years and always brings a different point of view to our students at Columbia. The rhetorical question came not from him, but from his longtime …
There is a story I heard this year during the US Open. A media colleague of mine looked at the expanses of empty seats in the massive Bud Collins Media Center and harkened back to when it was opened way back at the end of the last century…aka before 2OOO…and sighed. ‘This was state of …
