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Baseball and Business Vignettes
Watching baseball in October is a ritual amongst me, my brothers and good friends. Typically it's watching my St Louis Cardinals in October. This year, they aren't in, so I'm left rooting very passionately against the Cubs and writing about baseball. While baseball is on the mind, it reminds me of...
Work/Life Balance… Blah, Blah, Blah
Work/Life Balance is one of the biggest buzz words in the human resources and leadership circles these days, and one that I most often causes me severe cringing when I hear the words. Why do I cringe? Because so often the conversation is so surface level, it doesn't address the systemic root of...
Choose Your North Star, Don’t Let It Choose You
As the CEO of your business, it's important that you choose your North Star. In nautical circles, the North Star was used to navigate the direction of the ship. It informed all of the little decisions that generate a ship's heading. If you're the captain and you start choosing the ship's direction...
Why Achieving More Won’t Always Make You Happy
In 1990, at age 11, I sold 106 items in a school fundraiser to win a Super Nintendo. In 1998, at age 17, I joined the Army, at 19, I had been promoted 4 times and by 21 I became one of the youngest in the entire United States Army to be promoted to the rank of E6, Staff Sergeant. Less than four...