There are six Top 20 games on Saturday in college football: (10) Baylor vs. (16) Oklahoma (8) Notre Dame vs. (11) Arizona State (9) Kansas State vs. (6) TCU (4) Alabama vs. (14) LSU (13) Ohio State vs. (7) Michigan State (5)… Continue Reading
I enjoy politics as a spectator sport, just like any other almost-34-year-old who periodically reads long-form articles in publications trying to recapture their mojo. I’ll look at results today for Michaud-LePage (Maine Governor), Elise Stefanik and her 30 year-old self… Continue Reading
The youngest person ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives happened back in 1973, when Elizabeth Holtzman won at age 31. Tomorrow, Elise Stefanik should win at age 30, breaking a forty-year old record in the process. In addition to… Continue Reading
I’d venture to guess that a lot of people in standard business roles, when they hear a term like “Employee engagement,” they think of a fluffy cloud hovering around the Human Resources department. They don’t know exactly what it is, but it… Continue Reading
In my first year of graduate school, I tried to set up a series of events with business leaders from the Minneapolis area. The basic idea would be: at a bar, appetizers and drinks, a business leader speaks for five… Continue Reading
Couple of stories before we get going on this post. 1. I went to graduate school (for business/organizational development) from 2012 to 2014. It was a little bit off-task, to be sure. In the first semester of the first year, we had… Continue Reading
There’s a long article on Grantland about the relationship between Mike Leach (potentially the most interesting college football coach of the past 15 years) and QB Connor Halliday up at Washington State, in Pullman. The article is great and laden with anecdotes… Continue Reading
Probably no entity in American life has been scrutinized more than the middle class — they rise, they’re left for dead, they rise again, they die again, etc. It’s almost comical sometimes. But in reality, especially after the 2008 downturn,… Continue Reading