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 … [Read more...]
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
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 … [Read more...]
Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace
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...]
Goodbye & Good Riddance
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...]
Podcast Interview on “The Athletics of Business” with Ed Molitor
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...]
The Downside of Being Confined: Reduced Travel
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...]
No Bats Baseball Club honored during TV news feature
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...]
Current Writing Projects
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...]
Who Is In Your Hall of Fame?
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...]
My 10 Favorite Movies: Worth a Watch When Passing Time During the Pandemic
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...]