US Soccer: A Failure in Leadership and Tactical Prowess
Today, I am embarrassed to call myself a US soccer fan. For the first time since 1986, the United States…
Guard your Attention with your Life
Attention. I walk or run my dog most mornings. In fact, since I became a dog owner a decade ago,…
10 Ways to Improve Amazon.com’s Experience
Amazon.com has become part of our everyday. Amazingly, when you think of buying anything, you think of Amazon. Sorry Target,…
Top 10 Reasons I Love Goalkeeping
Goalkeeping can be stimulating, exhilarating, and empowering. Here’s why. Handyman: You are the only player on the field with the…
10 Ways to Improve Your Company’s Culture
Each company’s culture is its own. It’s very hard to generalize the unique characteristics of company’s culture down to a…
The Top 10 Reasons I Write
The word ‘write’ can mean different things to different people. For some, write is fright. For others, it is sheer…
Change is Knocking. How will you answer?
I’ve become numb to change. Over my life, I’ve endured so much change that it’s now the norm not the…
Want an additive with that? HEB Adds Additech’s Fuel Service to its Gas Pumps.
I make it part of my weekly routine to fill up the ol’ Ford at the HEB. I stock up…
The Recipe for an Effective Pre-game Goalie Warm up
Goalies of the World – I want you to rethink how you warm up before a game. I see too…
Dick’s Sporting Goods Delivers E-mail Again and Again
With the Christmas season behind us, everyone awaits the unfortunate noise that occurs in January. THUD. CRASH. THUMP. Something heavy…
Goalies: Two Simple Words to Master your Position
Goalies have a tremendous advantage over the rest of the players on the soccer field: they can (legally) use their…
Write with the Rising Sun
Like an untamed lion, he roars onto the page, salacious and savage, ready to claw at any prey. Like a…
The Big Question: How’s Business Going
I make it a point to pose the following question to an unsuspecting waiter, hostess, cook, or ‘owner-looking’ person at…
A Look Back: Bringing a MVP to Old Media
It’s amazing the breadth of communities available on the Internet. Whether your community’s focus is soccer fanatics, early 20th century…
The Most Important Time of your Workday? The Last 30 Minutes.
Watch a Football game lately? The games are becoming one long investigation after another… Did his knee touch down? Did…
Expedia Excels at Capturing Customer Sentiment
You’ve just completed an online transaction. No sweat. You’ve been a digital maven for years. Maybe it was for a…
The World Needs More Fighters
A fighting man got punched and fell on his back. Weary and dizzied by the lethal strike, he felt for…
The Key to MLS Championship? Stellar Goalkeeping.
As a former soccer goalkeeper and current goalkeeper coach, I see the goalkeeping as vitally important to a team’s success. With…
The 4 Keys to Unlocking Your Value – Part 4 – Persistence
What is persistence? What makes one man withstand nearly insurmountable odds and prevail while another man shrinks from the challenge…
The 4 Keys to Unlocking Your Value: Part 3 – Courage
Courage. Sheila stood up in front of a room full of strangers to deliver a message that resonated with everyone…