| By Psychology Today, www.psychologytoday.com | You’ve been lucky enough to get tickets to the most important game of the year in your favorite sport. It’s great to be able to participate in the live action, even if you’re just in the nosebleed seats. As the game unfolds, you’re carried along with your fellow fans as you […]
Goal Setting: Try Something New for 30 Days
TEDTalks [3:21] Is there something you’ve always meant to do, wanted to do, but just … haven’t? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals.
Esports: Gaming Scholarships For College Grew 480% Last Year
| 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 […]