Sep 13, 2021 | Daily Dose of Dan, Extra Points
“Turn on the TV.” I will never forget where I was and what I was doing when asked to turn on the television. A fellow junior high parent who we carpooled with had called to say she wasn’t sending her daughter to school that day. The country was under attack and she...
Sep 6, 2021 | Daily Dose of Dan, Extra Points
In preparing for this year’s Labor Day Special, I decided to see what I wrote last year. Ironic that while 2020 was the most volatile year in my lifetime, that the concept of “labor” and how we are living at least in North America hasn’t changed much in 12 months. In...
Aug 30, 2021 | Business Strategy, Daily Dose of Dan, Extra Points
My best round of golf is a 74 (+3 over par). My best run/walk splits for over four miles is 10 minutes, 59 seconds. My best year in business was 2019. We should all know what our best is in the activities and events we compete in, whether they be personal or...
Aug 16, 2021 | Daily Dose of Dan, Extra Points
This is Jumanji week… No, this has nothing to do with either Robin Williams or Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It’s the 25th anniversary of a fun idea to get a bunch of high school pals who love golf for a weekend full of hitting the links. It started in 1996 with walking...
Aug 10, 2021 | Daily Dose of Dan, Extra Points
The person we most spend time talking to daily is ourselves. This can be a very good thing, and unfortunately also a very bad thing. We humans have a tendency to be cruelest and most unbending to the person we should most be kind to. And when the bad stuff starts...
Aug 7, 2021 | Daily Dose of Dan, Extra Points
Last week while playing golf, I heard a golfer from a nearby tee box yell, “heads up!” If you’re a golfer, you know that the proper bellow for hitting a ball in the near vicinity of others is “fore!” The difference is important. “Fore” means duck and cover. Golfers...
