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...]
Dealing with Disappointment: The Four Words You Need to Know
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...]
The Six Steps of the Crisis
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...]
Making Better Time Choices During Housebound Mandates
From what I've been seeing, reading, and hearing in discussions with friends on five continents, one of the major challenges during COVID-19's unexpected housebound life challenges stems from what to do with the time that mandated self-isolation … [Read more...]