I liked it, I really liked it. I didn’t expect to like it. But I did. I watch the State of the Union every year. I watch it regardless of blue or red, with the hope that this speech will have a strategy, a concept, or a line that will change America forever. Usually I […]
Why Swim with the Sharks When You Can Stay in the Baby Pool? Challenges Facing Gen X and Gen Y
For a decade Gen X had it all. They were the babies in the corporate family. Demographics and talking heads professed Gen X as the savior of the free world. Everyone: corporate, non-profits, family business and the arts scrambled to figure out how to include them, promote them, reward them, evaluate them, and make room […]
There is No Crying in Coaching: Why and When We Need to Do Our Job
There is No Crying in Coaching: Why and When We Need to Suck It Up The COACHING class, Principles of Coaching, at The University of Akron has garnered interest around the sports world. ESPN wrote about it this summer as news of former Ohio State Coach Jim Tressel teaching a class on coaching ricocheted among […]
Creative Visualization: What’s Old is New Again
We all know Coach Jim Tressel, the OSU coach whose teams beat Michigan 9 out of 10 times. Jim Dennison is the winningest coach in The University of Akron history. Coach Dennison is the coach who gave Coach Tressel his first job. They are together again, 40 years later, to teach a class on coaching […]
Business Lessons Learned from the Back of a Horse
The Preakness unfolded as a glorious day in Maryland. And then, as if to shed tears for Barbero, the rains came. Oddly, as the horses made their way to the starting gate, a shaft of sunlight cast a spell over the homestretch. A bittersweet day: thoughts of Barbero amid good wishes for the Kentucky Derby […]
Let Your Inner Brilliance Out-How to be Your Best You
Keith Dambrot, says it this way, the worst thing you can do is make a gifted player over-think. As Men’s Basketball Coach at The University of Akron and the first person to discover LeBron James on the elementary school playgrounds of Akron Oh, he should know. Great players play all on instinct versus thinking he […]
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