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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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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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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Another lesson from my soon to be published book on what horses can teach you about your communication and leadership skills. The Story The Round Pen is a microcosm of life. How a person uses their verbal, vocal and visual...
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I am working on a book version of the “day in the pasture”. I so truly believe that how you are in the pasture is how you are in your professional and personal life that I have committed big blocks...
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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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Like racing’s Triple Crown, the Oscars are supposed to be the third jewel of the awards season. The Golden Globes, the Screen Actor’s Guild, and then the Oscars. I plan Oscar Sunday so I can start watching the Red Carpet...
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If you watched the Grammy’s on SUNDAY night, I want to draw your attention to something you may have noticed or not noticed. Alicia Keys was the host. She is very used to performing in front of thousands of people. But she...
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I watched as the LA Rams won the Super Bowl coin toss. When Jared Goff elected to defer the ball I knew the Patriots had just won their 6th Super Bowl. Go ahead, play the game, snoozer that it was,...
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The good news was that a client came to me with a referral. A referral is like gold to me. The bad news was that the referral shot herself in the foot. First step was to talk to referral. We...
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