Baseball playoffs are in full swing, and my beloved New York Yankees are right in the thick of things. They breezed through the first round, sweeping the Minnesota Twins three games to none. There are many stories of great leadership in the Yankees’ history; this time of year reminds me to share some them. Joe [...]
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Tuesday Tidbit
October 12, 2010Newslink: Leadership
August 6, 2010Always Rely On A Team, Not Individuals Today’s link is to an article published on Forbes.com, combining two things I’m a big fan of; sports and leadership. What lessons and skills can we take from sports teams and apply to business teams? Several, according to author Mark de Rond. Click HERE to read the full article, published August [...]
Advice for football players; advice for life
August 1, 2010Herman Edwards is a highly respected football analyst and former professional football coach. As such, he was invited to share some words of wisdom with some Pac-10 (12) quarterbacks. The meeting took place last week at ESPN‘s campus in Bristol, CT. Edwards shared the following three pieces of advice for the young men to consider, if they aspire to [...]
LeBron, a year later
July 11, 2010A little over a year ago, I wrote this post about LeBron James and the extraordinary humility he demonstrated in his MVP acceptance speech. My, my, how things have changed. I don’t think anyone would debate that agreeing to participate in a one hour special to announce his next team was not a good move by LeBron [...]
Live until you die
April 20, 2010Here’s a question to consider. Right now, at this moment, are you living? Really living? Or, are you biding time until you die? Sunday morning’s edition of ESPN’s Outside The Lines included a report about Gay Culverhouse and her efforts to develop a program to assist retired NFL players in obtaining financial and medical assistance. Culverson is [...]
Be Bulldogs!
April 8, 2010What a game Monday night! With a 9:21 tip-off time, I had no intention of staying up to watch the whole game, but I simply couldn’t pull myself away. Much has already been written about the teams, the players, the coaches, and the game’s place in the history of the NCAA tournament. However, I want to [...]
Power, Love, Sound Judgment
March 20, 2010The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is always a closely followed event in our house. My husband and I both participate in a pool at work, our daughter and her husband fill out brackets and we often compare notes. Our daughter recently moved back to the area, so this year we all took off Friday afternoon to [...]
One very smart little boy
March 14, 2010Imagine if all of us saw the world through the eyes of a child. Especially the very smart seven year old little boy I sat next to yesterday. I attended an Ohio High School Division I District Championship game on Saturday. Westerville Central High School was playing Northland High School out of Columbus. Northland is the #1 team [...]
Olympic thoughts: 1948
February 28, 2010Until yesterday, 1948 was the last time the U.S. won Olympic gold in the four-man bobsled event. Think about that for a moment. 1948. Sixty two years of competition over fifteen winter Olympics. That’s a long time in athletic competition. Here are some other noteworthy items from that year: –> The average cost of a new house [...]
Olympic Thoughts: Time to shine
February 25, 2010Tuesday evening, the ladies figure skating event started. As always, there are many human interest stories; sad, heroic, heartwarming. Some stories are so brief, they hardly get noticed. This one belongs to the very first skater to perform her short program, Cheltzie Lee of Australia. There isn’t a lot of information available about Cheltzie. According to [...]
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