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… Continue reading “US Soccer: A Failure in Leadership and Tactical Prowess”…
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,… Continue reading “Guard your Attention with your Life”…
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,… Continue reading “10 Ways to Improve Amazon.com’s Experience”…
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… Continue reading “Top 10 Reasons I Love Goalkeeping”…
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… Continue reading “10 Ways to Improve Your Company’s Culture”…
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… Continue reading “The Top 10 Reasons I Write”…
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… Continue reading “Change is Knocking. How will you answer?”…
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… Continue reading “Want an additive with that? HEB Adds Additech’s Fuel Service to its Gas Pumps.”…
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… Continue reading “The Recipe for an Effective Pre-game Goalie Warm up”…
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… Continue reading “Dick’s Sporting Goods Delivers E-mail Again and Again”…
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… Continue reading “Goalies: Two Simple Words to Master your Position”…
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… Continue reading “Write with the Rising Sun”…
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… Continue reading “The Big Question: How’s Business Going”…
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… Continue reading “A Look Back: Bringing a MVP to Old Media”…
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… Continue reading “The Most Important Time of your Workday? The Last 30 Minutes.”…
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… Continue reading “Expedia Excels at Capturing Customer Sentiment”…
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… Continue reading “The World Needs More Fighters”…
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… Continue reading “The Key to MLS Championship? Stellar Goalkeeping.”…
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… Continue reading “The 4 Keys to Unlocking Your Value – Part 4 – Persistence”…
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… Continue reading “The 4 Keys to Unlocking Your Value: Part 3 – Courage”…