Hopefully you know the other end of that quote in the headline from my favorite author (no fair scrolling down). I thought of it today because I had lunch with a colleague who is about to teach a graduate course in sports leadership. He and I probably have 60 or so years combined experience in sports and business (and occasionally they’re one and the same!) and we had an ironic laugh about something we see a lot. Continue reading
Tag Archives: management
Easy Peezy
We used to have a running joke within my group which surfaced every time more demands were placed on us. “It’s the Internet,” we’d say, “how hard can it be?” As companies have found out with increasing frequency of late, it can be quite hard indeed. Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, Reality checks
Change or Die
There is a study out this morning from the Newspaper Association of America that speaks to the growth of newspaper web sites. The study, conducted by Nielsen, shows that just over 40% of Internet users (based on the numbers I’d say they mean US only) visited a newspaper web site in the third quarter, up almost 16% from the prior year. To which I say – well DUH! Continue reading
Filed under Consulting


