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James Caan: Playing Against Type
James Caan—the son of a kosher butcher, born in the Bronx, N.Y., and raised in Queens—admits, “My choices have not been very Yiddish. “I rode horses; I played with karate,” says Caan, a master in Gosoku Ryu. “When I came to Hollywood, the first thing I bought was a horse and hung out with stuntmen. […]
Bo Jackson: Facing the Unknown
Mention the name Bo Jackson today in any professional sports clubhouse and you’ll hear the same sentiment over and over: He could have been the best athlete to ever play the game—any game. It is that missed opportunity, albeit through no fault of his own, that seems to define Jackson’s two-sport playing career nearly 20 years after […]
Reading List: Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office
In 2004, years before Sheryl Sandberg advised women to “lean in,” executive coach Lois P. Frankel challenged women to lean back and take a hard look at the cultural cues and societal attitudes that subconsciously or unconsciously contribute to career-sabotaging mistakes. In this updated edition of her New York Times best-seller, Frankel revisits the concerns […]
True Romance
What do two former sports guys know about romance? Apparently quite a bit. Former sportswriter and TV producer Mike Fleiss came up with the concept of The Bachelor and the spin-off The Bachelorette, and his guy on the line, host Chris Harrison, is a former sportscaster. “It is strange, but now Dr. Phil has nothing on […]
Homes, Sweet Homes
Blake Andrews has gone skydiving nearly 400 times. As a gifted young tennis player, he competed alongside Andre Agassi, Jim Courier and Monica Seles. But no leap out of a B-52 at 14,000 feet, no smashing serve or killer volley ever matched the thrill he experienced when visiting Popoyo, Nicaragua, in June 2011, and sliding shoes […]
Much Better: Revolutionary Tech
The nature of technology is to constantly improve and make previous gadget models seem inferior, if not obsolete. Yet the year-to-year advancements in some products are often so incremental, the change is hard to see—or justify spending more money on. Not so with the following six innovative and revolutionary gizmos. [[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_large”,”fid”:”15630″,”attributes”:{“alt”:””,”class”:”media-image”,”height”:”350″,”style”:”width: 300px; height: 219px;”,”typeof”:”foaf:Image”,”width”:”480″}}]] Apple […]
Three Thank-You’s
You and I share something in common even though we may have never met. No, it’s not our good looks. (That’s a given.) You and I both know people who changed our lives forever. They believed in us when we didn’t, let us fail when we needed to learn, and saw in us what we […]
Reading List: The Doodle Revolution
Professional “Infodoodler” and visual literacy advocate Sunni Brown wants to elevate the art of doodling to its rightful place as an essential component of literacy. Brown refutes the idea that doodling is a “mindless and unfocused” activity. In her lexicon, a doodle is visual note-taking and “spontaneous marks made to support thinking.” Infodoodling is the […]
Domino’s Patrick Doyle: Getting the Team on Board for Reinvention
Gary Vaynerchuk: Everyone’s a Media Company
Reading List: Joy, Inc.
Richard Sheridan, CEO and co-founder of software developer Menlo Innovations, acknowledges upfront that his belief that workplace joy is possible, achievable and a driver of success “may sound radical, unconventional and bordering on a crazy business idea.” But Sheridan, a self-described eternal optimist, isn’t daunted by the doubters. His company’s success proves that joy and […]
