| By John Koetsier, www.forbes.com | Esports might just be the new college scholarship. According to Michael Brooks, the executive director of the National Association of Collegiate eSports, the number of post-secondary institutions offering esports scholarships has grown almost 5X in the last year. In other words, all the time on Fortnite just might not be a waste. Esports is […]
Knight Commission Urges Tougher NCAA Reforms
| By Knight Commission On Intercollegiate Athletics, www.prnewswire.com | “The Commission on College Basketball rightly emphasized that ‘the NCAA administers what is effectively a public trust in the United States—athletic competition among college athletes,’” said Commission co-chair Arne Duncan, former U.S. Secretary of Education. “But it’s an open question if the NCAA can restore public confidence in its […]
Are You An Authentic Leader?
| By Ann Latham, www.forbes.com | I have always thought of myself as an active person. Hiking, skiing, ice hockey, ping pong, tennis, wilderness canoeing – you name it and I was game. From my tiny years when playing tackle football meant throwing myself around someone’s legs and hanging on as I was dragged the length of […]
Want to Create an Elite Company Culture? Measure These 5 Things
| By John Eades, www.inc.com | The data is in. Companies that have elite cultures outperform those who don’t. Take Chick-fil-A for example. The company is on pace to become the nation’s third-largest fast food restaurant by 2020. The company generates more revenue per restaurant than any other fast-food chain in the US, and it’s only open six days a week. […]
8 Easy Steps To A Healthier Workplace Culture
| By William Vanderbloemen, www.forbes.com | Culture isn’t just a buzzword. It’s the key to changing your workplace into a place people want to be and not a place people hate. What would it be like to have a job where team members celebrated the workplace, rather than just tolerating it? It can happen, and it’s not […]
Doris Burke Has Game
| By Noam Scheiber, www.nytimes.com | PHILADELPHIA — In mid-April, on the last day of the N.B.A.’s regular season, a group of reporters gathered at the Wells Fargo Center here, buzzing with an urgent question: Would Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Milwaukee Bucks’ impossibly elastic 6-foot-11 phenom, be in the lineup that night? The player had recently been sidelined with […]
How to Build (and Rebuild) Trust
Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it’s broken? In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei gives a crash course in trust: how to build it, maintain it and rebuild it — something she worked on during a recent stint at Uber. “If we can […]
How to Run a Meeting Without Talking Too Much
| By Art Markman, hbr.org | Have you ever left a meeting feeling that you dominated the whole thing — and not in a good way? You talked a lot, and in the end, you felt that nobody else had enough time to speak. This is a bad dynamic for several reasons. People don’t want to attend […]