I enjoy listening to Tim Cowlishaw in Dallas every afternoon on 103.FM. He is a prominent columnist and reporter for SportsDay in the Dallas Morning News. Today, I saw that he published his list of the top 50 sports books, in an article entitled “By My Reading…” (March 15, 2015, p. 14C) Click the link… Read More Cowlishaw’s List of Sports Books is Intriguing
David Justice: Scotty H. Scott Hatteberg: Yo, what’s up, D.J.? David Justice: Pickin’ machine. [Scott laughs] David Justice: How you likin’ first base, man? Scott Hatteberg: It’s, uh… it’s coming along. Picking it up. You know, tough transition, but I’m starting to feel better with it. David Justice: Yeah? Scott Hatteberg: Yeah. David Justice: What’s… Read More Mojo – I Think We’re In Need of Finding Our Mojo (Ron Washington, & “Multiplier” Leadership)
Do you know why they call it the “ol’ boys network?” Because it’s filled with men who never quite grew up, and they like their clubhouse to still be a very exclusive club. So, if you’re not part of their group, play by their rules, see the world their way, you can’t break in to… Read More Reflecting on one “Values Deficiency” of the Ol’ Boys Network – (And Why We Need a “New Women’s Network”)
What am I? Just a teacher – a member of one of the great professions in the world. John Wooden, Wooden on Leadership “For a lot of employees, Starbucks is their first professional experience… So we try to figure out how to give our employees the self-discipline they didn’t learn in high school.” Quoted… Read More Managers & Supervisors; Teachers, Coaches, & Mentors – thoughts on Developing Employees
Iceland; Ireland; Greece; California. They are all in trouble – deep, serious trouble. The debts are massive. The way out looks… well, there doesn’t seem to be a very workable way out. And the financial situation in other corners of the globe have ripple effects in every corner of the globe like never before. What… Read More Michael Lewis: The Financial Crisis is a Moral Crisis
This is the time of the year that we see so many collective lists of the “best of 2010.” In the last few days, we have seen such lists for films, sports accomplishments, songs, architecture, recipes, restaurants, and of course, books. I want to tell you that I am unimpressed with most of the… Read More Another Perspective on the “Best of 2010” Lists
Quoted without comment, about Ron Washington, while he was the infield coach of the Oakland A’s: Ron Washington was the infield coach because he had a gift for making players want to be better than they were — though he would never allow himself such a pretentious thought. Michael Lewis, Moneyball, (p. 165). Go Rangers!
I’m a little fuzzy on “the point” of this article in Slate.com. But I know this, she is right about the popularity of Outliers, and the overall subject. Here’s the article: Give It a Rest, Genius — What the new success books don’t tell you about superachievement by Ann Hulbert. Of the books discussed in… Read More Outliers, Talent Is Overrated, And Others – Creating Conversations About Success
I moved to Dallas in 1987. If you had decided, based on the naked eye, where to invest all of your money, it would have been in the frozen yogurt shops (yes, “shops,” plural — TCBY seemed to be the champion). Always busy, lines out the door, all day – they owned the landscape. And… Read More What if everything you thought was right – was wrong?
Last night, I presented for the first time in about six years my synopsis of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis. It is a book that chronicles how the Oakland A’s, under the philosophy of General Manager Billy Beane, was able to compete with the big boys on much less… Read More I’ve been thinking about numbers…
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