Emulate the right behaviors. Pattern the right behaviors. As a kid, I was all about baseball…live it, breathed it. Always pitching against the front steps, always throwing myself pop-ups, spending hours playing Wiffle Ball on the streets of NE Philly, always looking for neighborhood kids to hit the local fields for pickup games. From my …
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Your team is built with people with perspectives and backgrounds? That’s the jawn! A few weeks ago while working in Florida, someone mocked my Philly roots by using the word “jawn”, a distinctly Philly word. There was a young man nearby who said “I can’t believe you know jawn. I thought I was the only …
I found this hat while de-cluttering the home. It was last worn in 2009, my final year as head coach for a team I had coached for years. In 2009, the boys were 15 with interests shifting towards jobs, cars and girls. It was time to retire as a coach and I was OK with …
I lost a bet to my daughter and needed to pay up, but I offered just a little bit more. She wouldn’t let me pay. What I do for one I have to do for all, so I asked my son if he needed a few bucks. He also said no. I was raised to be …
I have WeatherTech® mats in all of my cars. Love them. They can just be hosed clean for the most part without much effort needed, but I was cleaning my mats a few weeks ago and it bothered me that I couldn’t get some of the water channels perfectly clean, so I broke out the …
Your children will leave, your employees will leave. It’s inevitable. Do your best to make leaving happen. This is a pic of my son’s vacant room, taking 3 days ago…childhood pics and memories still on the wall. My son moved across the state to his new life, his new home in Centre Hall, PA. After 27 years, …
My grandfather was born in 1908 and grew up as baseball was being woven into the fabric of America. He loved the game and played semi-pro ball into his early twenties. In the late 70’s and early 80’s as I was playing little league and travel baseball, we’d watch games on TV, talk old-school and …
Spring of 1998 and I’m attending a corporate planning meeting with about 40 other people. I’m sitting in the back row and squinting to see the screen at the front of the room. My peer sitting next to me said “put your glasses on”. I told him I didn’t have any; didn’t want to put …
Behind every employee at work is someone, likely lots of someones, who love them. I was talking with a colleague the other day about a time when fired someone who cleary was underperforming in his job. The employee said to him “But what will I tell my wife and kids?”. Reminded me of a very …
Take the time to help younger professionals become who they were meant to be. While prepping for college years ago, my daughter said “no offense, Dad, but I don’t want to sit in an office all day”. She wanted something different. And she’s done something different. Emma has her masters and is a certified athletic …