To a Former Labor Secretary Communication Matters

This week embattled then-Labor Secretary Alex Acosta gave a press conference. Immediately lawyers stepped in to denounce all of the legal errors in the monolithic and monotone press conference. I don’t know about his claims from a legal standpoint.  I...
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My Take on the Kentucky Derby Fiasco

I don’t like horse racing. Most of the time I can’t bring myself to watch even the Kentucky Derby. As a former horse owner I understand the risk involved in thousands of pounds of horses flying around a track, with...
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There is such thing as a DO-OVER: Tiger Says So

I remember that fateful Thanksgiving 2008: the golf club, the mug shot, the smashed car, the scratched face and the improbable story to cover it all. Not since Greek mythology had a god fallen so far. Let alone so fast....
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When Let’s Re-Group is a Great Strategy

The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book HorseTalk: Lessons in Leadership The Story The challenge Billiards is designed to be frustrating. One participant once pulled me aside and told me that he had some suggestions to make the...
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What You Can Learn from a Lucite Podium?

You control you. We say in communication that there are three things you control: you, your message, and your environment to a degree. In communication and in life we tend to concentrate on the things we don’t have control over,...
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