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  • Where have all the good times gone?

    I’m sure most of you have heard Van Halen cover You Really Got Me from The Kinks on their 1978 self-titled album.  You may not have heard them cover The Kinks with a version of Where Have All The Good Times Gone on their perhaps lesser known Diver Down album of 1982. The field is…

  • There’s no “I” in Leader, but there is towards the back of Leadership

    A ship is in the simplest form a vessel larger than a boat for transporting people or goods.  In reality though a ship is also much more complex and takes a team working both together and separately to ensure it operates correctly.  Team members have specific functions or tasks perhaps, but a common goal or…

  • March (Management) Madness – Playing/Planting Sixteen Seeds

    As conference tournaments enter us into March Madness, I fondly remember high school playing days and endless hours balancing schoolwork, basketball, and watching the tournament.  Pulled the picture from back in the day not just so you can see me dribbling through a zone press (pinnacle of being a point guard!), but also so you…

  • Labels – Skating (or skiing in the East!) on thin ice….

    For many reasons whether entirely valid at times, we tend to have a need to name or label things.  Sometimes definitions of the labels are fairly concrete, sometimes intuitive, sometimes debatable, sometimes manipulated, and sometimes perhaps arcane. The photo from a few weeks ago on the mountain has three labels for the trail to be…