Everyone Looks Good When Things Are Great

Everyone Looks Good When Things Are Great

Sports can really teach us a lot about life and business.  (Non-sports people…wait!  Don’t roll your eyes.  It’s true.)  You learn how to work as a team.  You learn to compete in a productive way.  You learn to work with a larger group to...
How Do You Treat the Waitress?

How Do You Treat the Waitress?

This story starts with me being out to dinner with a colleague.  Everything was going swimmingly until the waitress came out.  As she took our drink order (the very beginning of dinner), he was rude.  Maybe I was being overly sensitive, I thought,...
3 Tips For Making Mistakes

3 Tips For Making Mistakes

Here’s a dirty little secret that you might not want to hear…you are going to screw up.  We all are.  Whether it’s in friendships, relationships, business, school, or life…we all get off the tracks sometimes.  Sometimes we know it’s a mistake...
Lessons from Heartbreak Ridge

Lessons from Heartbreak Ridge

In 1986, Clint Eastwood starred in, produced, and directed a war movie called “Heartbreak Ridge.”  In it, Eastwood stars as an aging Gunnery Sargent Tom Highway, who goes back to his old unit to lead them.  There he takes over a rag-tag group of losers and is forced...