Everywhere you go, you take your full potential with you. Everyone does. Employees show up like presents waiting to unwrap – all that potential. What a gift! And yet, so much potential is never realized, never unwrapped.

Have you tapped into your employees’ potential? (more…)

In an industry where winning is quite literally everything, the Washington Nationals are doing something a little different. Having signed Stephen Strasburg, the #1 MLB draft pick in 2009, the last-place Nationals have landed themselves a phenomenal pitcher. One that is breaking rookie records while striking out the toughest hitters in baseball.

All of this adds up to dollars and wins for the Nationals. Every time they put Strasburg in they stand to gain another “W” in the win column along with significantly increased revenues – improved ticket sales, concessions, advertising revenue, and merchandise sales. Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching. Not to mention the nice overall marketing “bump” in what has become a fascinating story to watch in major league baseball. (more…)

By Aimee Windmiller-Wood

Oh fine. I’ll admit it. I like eavesdropping on stranger’s conversations. I’ve even gone so far as to shush my kids at a restaurant so I could hear the end of someone’s conversation at the table next to ours. And I know I’m not the only one. Come on really. Why do we have so many reality shows on TV? Not all of them are about eating bugs. We love looking in on other people’s lives, seeing how they operate - maybe even learning from their mistakes.

I’ve learned a lot by listening in and confirmed what most of us already know: (more…)

I am comfortable with nuance. It’s gentle, considerate, subtle.  Don’t get me wrong, I have explorer tendencies and love difference, even glaring difference. It can be exciting, adventurous, fun. On the other hand – the darker side – glaring difference can be loud, obnoxious, always looking for a fight.

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I am done talking. No really…I can’t do it anymore. Funny position to take, given what I do for a living. But, I am done. I started a conversation just the other day and it went south…fast. I was being “schooled” on the difference between tolerance, compassion and endorsement, when I just disengaged. As I was crafting my witty, brilliant response, I just stopped. I didn’t need to have the last word. There wasn’t a last word to be had. We both had very different views about tolerance and compassion. I just didn’t want to try and understand anymore. And I knew I wasn’t being understood. (more…)