I listen to Dallas Morning News columnist Tim Cowlishaw and Matt Mosley every afternoon on 103.3 (KESN-FM) in Dallas. Today his column was about the superiority of the NBA over the college game. I wrote him and responded. I said: “I think the frustrating thing to me about the NBA is that the bandwidth… Read More Cowlishaw Compares NBA and College Basketball
Reading Ron Lieber‘s best-seller entitled The opposite of spoiled: Raising kids who are grounded, generous, and smart about money (Harper Business, 2015) is quite an eye-opener. He is a personal finance columnist for the New York Times. When I present its synopsis on Friday morning at the Park City Club, I am sure many parents… Read More Reading About Spoiled Stops My Splurge – The End of the Line for Me at SMU Basketball Games
Cheryl offers: I frequently hear people talking about our young generation graduating from college these days. Many times the comments just aren’t generous. My teaching experience at SMU has been just the opposite, so I’m often puzzled by this apparent gap in perceptions. The story coming out of Indiana from the University of Notre Dame… Read More Hard Work Pays Off for Gen Y
Cheryl offers: Sara and I teach a class at SMU titled “Leader as Coach” for MBA students. Last night we had a guest speaker, Matt Doherty, head basketball coach for the school. When we asked Matt about coming to talk to the students about the value he has seen in being a coach-like leader, he… Read More Thoughtful Leadership
Cheryl offers: Last week SMU Executive Education hosted the introductory session for their new women’s program, Women in Motion. The session was attended by high level women in consulting, telecommunications, IT sales, accounting, law and others. The title of the session was a reference to the book, Through the Labyrinth, by Alice H. Eagly and… Read More SMU launches “Navigating the Labyrinth” for Women
Cheryl offers: A few months ago, we decided to create a new offering for women’s business topics. Since we regularly attend the First Friday Book Synopsis, and we read a lot of books on women’s issues, we thought it might be interesting to blend the two concepts. That’s how we came up with the idea… Read More Curiosity is High-Test Fuel
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