Why Not Have a Players-Only Meeting?

What I love about sports is they keep it simple.  Any member of a sports team can call for a “players-only meeting.”  Detroit Lions running back, Reggie Bush said, after his team’s second consecutive loss, “We definitely need to have a team meeting-really dig deep inside and find out what we’re made of.”  They had…

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NFL—Ultimate Employee Engagement

The season of the NFL, or the demonstration of “ultimate employee engagement has begun!  “Employee engagement” is defined as “the emotional and functional commitment an employee has to his or her organization.” Statistics from Gallup show that 71% of all American workers are not fully engaged (see Gen Y multi-screening on company time).  We CAN…

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Are you ALL IN?

Valentine’s Day:  a time to celebrate who and what we love. . .  Tim Tebow is among them. Sigh. . .football season is over. . .he’s not in the news any more. . .or is he?  Sports pundits have been comparing the hot new NBA sensation, Jeremy Lin, to our boy Tim.  And yes, I…

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