relationships - Nathan Whitaker

Agreeing to Disagree – For Over 30 Years!

by Nathan Whitaker | Apr 3, 2024 | leadership, Personal Growth, relationships, Team Building

Last month I headed to Lexington, KY, for the most recent version of my ongoing fantasy baseball league’s draft. Our 32nd. We’ve also held it in the Lexington in Massachusetts, along with San Diego, Tampa, Palm Beach, Boston, DC, Vermont, Tennessee, Utah,...

Don’t Transfer Blame – Instilling Accountability in Teams

by Nathan Whitaker | Feb 9, 2024 | leadership, Personal Growth, relationships, Team Building

I learned a new lesson in accountability while in Orlando to keynote an international conference for the Turfgrass Producers International, thanks to two days with the Colorado Mesa Mavericks baseball team, ranked in the top 10 of Division II college baseball. Before...

New Year, New Process?

by Nathan Whitaker | Jan 15, 2024 | leadership, Personal Growth, relationships, Team Building

When I was in school at Harvard, I took a class from the late, brilliant Stephen Jay Gould, a paleontologist and big baseball fan (the latter is what helped me understand any of his examples). He spoke and wrote often of our preoccupation with otherwise meaningless...

Mentoring, the US Army, and Me

by Nathan Whitaker | Jan 4, 2024 | leadership, Personal Growth, relationships, Team Building

I’ve been able to speak in some really neat settings, including to professional and college sports teams, on university campuses, in foreign countries…even at the Iowa Speedway. Last month may have been the most unique of them all, as I was invited to...

Fired Into the Great Wide Open

by Nathan Whitaker | Jan 17, 2023 | Personal Growth, relationships

This week in 2004, I was fired by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Bruce Allen had just replaced Rich McKay as General Manager, and I was a “McKay Guy,” weary from two years of internal battles between head coach Jon Gruden and Rich (as well as the rest of us in...

Backdating Goals

by Nathan Whitaker | Dec 26, 2022 | leadership, Personal Growth, relationships

I’m sure Tony Robbins might not approve, but I’ve been known to backdate my goals. Yes, backdate. (Yes, having actual, forward-looking goals or a “One Word” is good, but stick with me – this is different.) At the end of December,...