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  • Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace
  • Goodbye & Good Riddance
  • Podcast Interview on “The Athletics of Business” with Ed Molitor
  • The Downside of Being Confined: Reduced Travel
  • No Bats Baseball Club honored during TV news feature

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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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coaching

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Travel

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Charity and Good Deeds

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Happiness, Mindfulness

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. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Movie Reviews

Dealing with Disappointment: The Four Words You Need to Know

April 27, 2020 by Ocean Palmer 4 Comments

A daisy chain of unrelated topics connected by braided common themes -- frustration and disappointment -- have led me to repeating the four words we need to keep in mind whenever we face echoing head noise. I feel strongly about all four, and have a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Happiness, Influencing Behaviors, Life Skills, Mindfulness

The Six Steps of the Crisis

April 13, 2020 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

The globe wallows in unexpected and ill-prepared turmoil, globally wrapped in an ever-thickening waddling of a virus-spun spiderweb by invisible worldwide foes offering no clues to a potential ending. The journey we will traverse is long, uphill, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Influencing Behaviors

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