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Blog postThe past week has seen the ranks of big-time college football coaching turned on its ear by the skedaddling of Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly to Louisiana State University and Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley to the University of Southern California.
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Blog postMark Anderson is a Toronto-raised product of the Canadian youth hockey culture and has seven broken noses to prove it. "I was usually on the receiving end of whatever elbow was thrown," Mark said. "But I'll never forget the lessons playing hockey taught me that I've used in life and in my career."
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Blog postThis week, a young man wrote a “letter” of thanks that has gone viral. The young man is a Wichita State University basketball player named Dexter Dennis and the “thank-you letter” was his decision to help staff at Koch Arena, where the team plays, clean up after the game.
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Blog postThe 2021 – 2022 NCAA basketball season marks the final season for Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University’s legendary coach, after 46 seasons on the Blue Devil’s bench. During this period, Coach K, as he is known, won five national championships and three Olympic gold medals as a head coach.
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Blog postIf you ask John Crowley, Chairman and CEO of Amicus Therapeutics, why he shifted his career path away from business consulting, he’ll tell you it stemmed from the diagnosis of two of his children with Pompe disease, a severe and often fatal neuromuscular disorder.
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Blog postThis past Sunday, the Cleveland Browns played their best game of the season in beating the division-leading Cincinnati Bengals. What is most significant about the Browns' victory is that it followed the team releasing arguably its most talented player Odell Beckham, Jr., known as OBJ.
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Blog postPro Football Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton can recount the exact moment when his future was a blank slate that needed paint, and fast. He was a college backup quarterback at the University of Georgia, watching the Bulldogs losing to Texas. What he chose to do next changed his life forever.
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Blog postYou’re a backup quarterback, and your team is winning. The head coach wants you to go in, adding to your stats. Instead, you let him know that the team would be better off picking the third-string quarterback instead. Coach looks incredulously at you. In today’s world, your selflessness is uncommon.
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Blog postEd Bastian joined Delta in 1998 as vice president of finance. Within three years, a man who didn’t fly in an airplane until the age of 25 was called upon to help lead Delta through the industry-wide adjustments that followed 9/11 and the ensuing economic downturn.
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Blog postOn Sunday, the Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Chargers played the season’s highest-scoring game. I won’t try to take you play-by-play through the final two minutes of the game, but I will set the scene for a rousing finish and leadership lesson with my son and I discussing the game.
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Blog postWhen the NFL Hall of Famer Roger Staubach was at the Naval Academy as a college student, he held every single record he could hold as a quarterback; he even won the Heisman. But the very next quarterback to step up after him broke two of those records the following year.
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Blog postWith practically no time remaining on the clock, and the Baltimore Ravens trailing the Detroit Lions 17 – 16, the Ravens were facing a 4th and 19. They converted it, and managed to set up a field goal to win that would require an NFL record-breaking effort by Baltimore’s Justin Tucker.
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Blog postMark Steffe adapted core values from both sports and the military in order to lead First Command Financial Services successfully through the COVID-19 pandemic. First Command Financial Services maintains more than $35 billion in managed accounts for 280,000 military families.
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Blog postThere’s absolutely no doubt whatsoever in my mind that the most difficult part of any endeavor is getting started. But the most important part is finishing. Finishing strong leaves us with feelings of pride and satisfaction that can be so pure and so sweet they actually transcend winning or losing.
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Blog postWhen Steven Izen watched the track & field relays at the recent Tokyo Olympics, he saw something different than the average television view. Doing something extremely well takes focus on execution, whether you’re handing off a baton or designing packaging for your product. Steven Izen has done both.
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Blog postWhen the New Orleans Saints played the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers looked lifeless and totally disconnected from his teammates. The lack of cohesion resulted in a terrible team performance, and I found myself measuring their loss in something other than points.
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Blog postEveryone knows where they were and what they were doing when the two airplanes slammed into the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001. I shared the sense of shock and unreality as the towers fell and the smoke and ash rumbled down the streets of the greatest city on Earth.
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