Midweek Motivator

Imagine if a great athlete like Derek Jeter had been so valuable to the (then) Greenville Hornets, they would never have allowed him to progress to the majors and achieve […]

In 2009 Clinton Romesha’s Red Platoon and the rest of his Black Night Troop were hurrying to shut down COP (Command Outpost) Keating; a strategic site so vulnerable every solider […]

In the Broadcast business where in some corners surface has passed for substance, some people continue to believe in the over-credited but under-performed. From group leaders to industry analysts some […]

In our management and radio programming consulting archives there exists a mythical file found under Creativity. It reads, “a core characteristic of the creative human being when given new information […]

What had been a slow-burning theme seems to be edging toward a point of combustibility. In one of American radio’s most widely consumed and coveted formats, the debate expands: what’s […]

What’s it going to be? Forge ahead with intrepid confidence or settle for “good enough?” If you choose the higher road what will it take to leave behind defeatism and […]

Don Imus left us on 27 December; in the last hours of the last week of the last “teens.” Like a handful of public personalities, there was no indifference about […]

The study of self-sabotage may not save broken organizations but it can help us understand how to avoid its devastation. In any company there are inevitable cycles that may eventually […]

In late 2007 global companies were watching a developing crisis. Sitting in a hotel room in Hawaii ostensibly on a family vacation, the cold arithmetic was undeniable. Howard Schultz found […]

I’m boarding my Delta flight out of Atlanta, heading home from a mission. I’m putting stuff away in 4-D when a shadow blocks the sunlight pouring through the cabin windows. […]