I was clearing out some boxes this weekend, basically tossing papers and things from my previous career, and I came across a neat little blast from the past. In 2012, a few months after becoming the manager of the Product…
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Living life backward: the power of visualization
“It is said that extraordinary people live their lives backward. They create a future, and then they live into it.” – Gary Mack, in Mind Gym Mind Gym is full of examples of the power of visualization, from the relatively…
Tagged with: ACT, baseball, Dwight Smith, Gary Mack, goals, inspiration, Mind Gym, visualization
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Sports
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Sports
The Running Man
A few years ago, I hated running. Now I’ve changed my tune: I grudgingly respect its existence, and occasionally hang out with it. When I was a tallish skinny youth, someone made the mistake of telling me, “You’d be a…
Tagged with: excellence, failure, goals, lessons, respect, running, success
Posted in Everything, Sports
Posted in Everything, Sports
Building a Championship Team
I take team-building very seriously: in the recreational sports world, poor teams lose and members go home without championships; in the business world, poor teams are weak links that can bring down organizations and cost people their livelihood – there’s…
Tagged with: excellence, futsal, goals, hiring, leadership, metrics, soccer, sports, team-building, teams, The Pitch
Posted in Everything, Leadership, Management, Soccer, Sports
Posted in Everything, Leadership, Management, Soccer, Sports
The Power of Goal-Setting: Arnold’s Blueprint
“When I said I wanted to get into acting, people said ‘No…be realistic’. Even when I ran for Governor they said, ‘Are you kidding me, you can never win, give it up!’ But I didn’t pay any attention because I…
Big Data! Metrics! Analytics!…a cautionary tale from the world of baseball
“In the information age, things that are precisely measured are rewarded disproportionally relative to impact.” – Theo Epstein, President of the Chicago Cubs I work in telecommunications, and one of the major developments of recent years is “big data” (if…
Tagged with: analytics, baseball, big data, goals, metrics, Scorecasting
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Posted in Everything, Leadership, Management, Sports
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