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Simplify Your Business
From my monthly column for the Kitsap Sun The Unites States Golf Association (USGA) and the Royal & Ancient (R&A) have collaborated on a major change in the golf landscape that has a business lesson attached to it. For the first time in as long as I can...
Extra Points: The Great Escape
A special edition missive by Captain Jack… I got unleashed… As much as Dan talks about being unleashed, he doesn’t approve when I take his advice. I made my great escape - the first in a long time - while Barb was attending to Bella. It was brilliant. I boldly burst...
Extra Points: Your Uniqueness Quotient
I was recently driving home from the ferry and heard the re-make of the legendary song Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. The re-make by the artist Disturbed in 2015 has a more edgy, haunting sound than the original softer and more melodic song that came...
Extra Points: Your Uniqueness Quotient
I was recently driving home from the ferry and heard the re-make of the legendary song Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. The re-make by the artist Disturbed in 2015 has a more edgy, haunting sound than the original softer and more melodic song that came...
Dealing with Distraction
I'm spending my Sunday morning glued to the television watching the final round of The Open being played at Carnoustie Golf Club in Scotland. One of golf's four major championships, The Open was being played for the 147th time, by far the most of any other golf...
Extra Points: Avoiding Organizational Amnesia
I was having a conversation with a client last week on the incredibly important topic of transferring knowledge. We were discussing the concept of "organizational amnesia" from my book Unleashed Leadership, and the upcoming development program I will be conducting for...
Extra Points: The Decision Domino Effect
I'm almost done listening to Walter Isaacson's magnificent book on Benjamin Franklin. It's an intriguing biography of a fascinating man, who ably wore many proverbial hats in his time on earth. One of them was politician; and he was a leading figure in the American...
Extra Points: Gravitational Pull
When I was gone for a week filming my upcoming LinkedIn Learning course in California, my wife Barb took on the seemingly insurmountable task of training Captain Jack and Bella. She worked with them to dutifully sit before getting their dishes to eat and prior to...
Extra Points: Gravitational Pull
When I was gone for a week filming my upcoming LinkedIn Learning course in California, my wife Barb took on the seemingly insurmountable task of training Captain Jack and Bella. She worked with them to dutifully sit before getting their dishes to eat and prior to...
