You Never Fully “Arrive”

You Never Fully “Arrive”

Last week I wrote about not transferring blame (via Colorado Mesa baseball).    As leaders, as we — and those we lead — truly own our mistakes, it's important that we also learn from them, and then move on. Learn from the past; don't live in it. That mindset is...

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Cut Day

Cut Day

The six years that I worked in the NFL, this was the most dreadful day, when rosters had to be trimmed from 80 players to 53. So many dreams crushed, or at least momentarily sidelined. And not the dreams of people who had no business being there...these were the best...

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Win It Again

Win It Again

“Now we just have to win it again.”
I was reminded of those words recently as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Kansas City Chiefs to win the most recent Super Bowl. When they were spoken eighteen years ago, we were about 35,000 feet over New Mexico or West Texas, a landscape of dusty red rock passing beneath our flight. I was holding the Lombardi Trophy…

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Starting a Streak

Starting a Streak

A good friend just broke a long sobriety streak, one that was just shy of twenty years. To his credit, he immediately pushed through the emotion of it and owned up to the lapse, but I suspect he was crushed, breaking a streak that long…

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Platform Thoughts

Platform Thoughts

The basic concept of “platform” is that each of us has a unique sphere of influence that no one else can fill in the way we can.
No one…

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Moral Victories

Moral Victories

Moral victories?
I was pondering the other day – again – what do you do when nothing seems to be going your way? Or when you’re completely outmatched before you take the field?

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