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It was really a simple ask. Pick people who are big thinkers and doers and ask them a simple question. Who are you following in this coming year who may be a little below the radar, but are innovative, have shown grit and have the ability to think a little differently. We asked 40 people …
A great year for storytelling. We wanted to list out some of our best reads…books we actually read, form the past year. Looking forward to early 2022 which will bring us Mike Sielski’s Kobe book, Ian O’Connor’s book on Coach K and many more, wayyy outside of sports as well. And as you will see, …
This weekend the Milwaukee Bucks gave away to their first 10,000 fans attending a game, a small piece of their championship court. Not big, but big on impact, and it showed how much a team can make an impact with the old fashioned, tactile memento which will hold great value for fans of all ages. …
There have been scores of stories, texts and social media discord in the past few weeks on issues big and small, the latest being the controversy surround Enes Kanter’s “Free Tibet” shoes, which came on the two year anniversary of current Sixers GM Darryl Morrey’s comments on human rights violations in China. He texted and …
Usually after not doing something mentally or physically for quite a while it takes a bit of a restart to get back into the flow. Amazingly we found it true about the return to live business events as well. Tuesday I made the trek to midtown to the CAA World Congress of Sports, the first …
We raise the question as a thought starter in class quite often. Who is the media? The initial responses are the ones one would expect…newspapers, CNN, Bleacher Report, NPR etc. etc.… Then we talk about the ability to self-story tell, the rise of social media and citizen journalism, the ability to create and enhance a narrative …
“Time is what we want the most and use the worst.” -William Penn Often we are asked what we do for money or what we just “do.” The newsletter, this website, our Podcast, LinkedIn, Twitter etc…does someone pay you for everything? No. Much of what I do that is public facing has little to do …
“What is essential to life is invisible to the eye.” Fred Rogers I caught this random line from the late Fred Rogers during a rebroadcast of the PBS documentary on his amazing life on Sunday, and it struck me as so important as we turn the page and head down the home stretch of this unusual …
As we head back to campus we keep asking what topics we were watching closely this fall. In addition to the basics gaining buzz…NIL, analytics, sports gambling, gamification, climate change, cause marketing, social responsibility; my answer continues to be STEM and healthy lifestyle. In that second category is the continued growing and somewhat neglected issue …
As we head into the second week of the Tokyo Olympics we will see lots of track and field, some baseball, more gymnastics and a host of other sports and disciplines which may catch our attention every few years. However we thought it would be good for the disruptive first adopter to look past Tokyo …