Ocean Palmer, Author at Ocean Palmer

New Novel in the Works: The TUKI BANJO follow-up

March 17, 2021 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Through the last couple decades, I have told a lot of fun stories featuring a small army of great characters. Datchet, a curmudgeonly old chap in London, was good enough Michael Caine wanted to play him on the screen if we could have raised the money to make it. Bonefish, a quirky horse with a […]

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Can’t We All Just Get Along?

March 17, 2021 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

The poppies just keep on growing. While the new president tries to instill a return to civility and order, the old one hopes the legal sledgehammer currently being lifted in New York somehow fails to crack open the coconut of various misgivings that will soon create an Excedrin headache all the Tylenol Extra Strength in […]

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Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace

January 5, 2021 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Whether inadvertent or stoked by emotion, conflict resolution is part of working with others. Like forest fires, prevention is easier to manage than putting out the flames. I am a big proponent of understanding what causes these issues in the first place. The genesis of heated disagreement comes from several combustable behavioral truths. Core beliefs […]

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Goodbye & Good Riddance

December 24, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

2020 & Trump Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Rump It has been difficult to keep silent these last few months as Rome burned, Nero fiddled, and Nero’s son-in-law was setting up a sketchy LLC to pack war chest cash from an “investigate election fraud” plea into the current president’s personal golden parachute. […]

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Podcast Interview on “The Athletics of Business” with Ed Molitor

September 2, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Hourlong interview with Ed Molitor a look back at my life, career, reinventions, and friends I recently sat down for an expansive in-depth interview with Chicago leadership expert Ed Molitor about my formative years, life choices, work, baseball related charity, and people I have met along the way. Ed and I spoke twice for a […]

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The Downside of Being Confined: Reduced Travel

September 2, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

If you want to learn, travel. If you want to learn a lot, travel to a foreign country. If you want to learn a lot about yourself, travel alone to a foreign country where you do not speak the language. As the world searches for its “new normal” in the aftershocks of the pandemic, an […]

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No Bats Baseball Club honored during TV news feature

August 26, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

TV Feature Honors Club, 4 Departed Members 26 August 2020 https://local12.com/news/local/no-fans-nets-historic-donations-for-reds-community-fund-in-form-of-fan-cutouts-cincinnati When I founded the No Bats Baseball Club in 1991, I had no idea we would still be together three decades later. Nor did I dream we would raise and donate $2 million to a wide variety of wonderful charities. This short piece ran […]

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Current Writing Projects

August 24, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Three Books, One Movie in the Works In between global Zoom seminars to help people manage their Worry Circles, I am pushing forward with three book projects and a motion picture comedy. I guess this is the upside of being somewhat sequestered in my writing room, watching hummingbirds as pandemic days slowly creep by. All […]

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Who Is In Your Hall of Fame?

May 25, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

People are, by nature, herd animals, and as life unfolds most of us will meet thousands. The vast majority will bounce off and wash away like beach sand, but some will stick like Band-Aids. A far smaller number have lasting impact. Only a few will enter your personal Hall of Fame. Who are those people? […]

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My 10 Favorite Movies: Worth a Watch When Passing Time During the Pandemic

May 13, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

My 10 Favorite Feature Films I am a movie guy — watch them, write them, read about them, and study them — so when I was asked recently for a list of my favorite movies it took awhile for me to sift through the memory bank and Ouija board my list. Shared below is a […]

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