Every year, for a decade, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison went on a two-week camping trip. They traveled together all over the eastern side of the country, including Florida’s Everglades, Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains, and of course northern Michigan. The two friends took time to learn birdcalls and flower identification, and enjoy breakfast outside. While a two-week vacation seems…
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How to Get the Best of an Argument
Politics! Coronavirus! Detroit Lions! There are plenty of things to talk (or YELL) about with family at Thanksgiving this year. How will you respond when your cousin’s boyfriend starts trash-talking something you believe in? What will you do when your aunt gets the whole family riled up with her point of view? Whether you spend…
Developing Peripheral Vision
Written by Mark H. Ronald and Robert B. Shaw, Excerpt Pulled from Dale Carnegie Issue #1: Leader to Leader Great leaders master the subtleties of decision making, particularly when the stakes are high. Leadership often demands bold moves – an industry altering acquisition, investment in an innovative technology, a major reorganization. The line between success…
How to Adapt Your Leadership for Millennials
There may not be an industry that is plagued with more generational chasms and clashing than in professional sports. Specifically for the National Football League, every year new and eager Millennial rookies join teams with established cultures, playbooks, veteran players, and seasoned coaches who are separated by 1-2 generations. When Jim Tomsula was coaching the…