The best of the best get great feedback (coaching). Of course, the coaches don’t play the game. But the best players become the best by understanding their strengths, their weaknesses, and learning from great feedback how to become better and better. The players want to get any advantage they can in order to win. Great coaches provide great quality feedback. Every incredible athlete who is or was at the top of their profession has had one or more tremendous coaches that hel

For hundreds (maybe thousands) of years, doctors thought that intestinal and gastric ulcers resulted from stress and/or too much stomach acid. So, they tried to cure people with anti-stress behaviors and milk or other anti-acids. The cures did not work for long; the ulcers kept coming back. But since doctors believed they understood the cause and cure, and they were taught these things in medical school, they continued to practice what they knew and believed. This was the

When sales and marketing are out of sync, resources are squandered, opportunities are missed and the competition thrives.

NASA was created in 1958 as America’s response to Russia sending Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 into orbit in 1957. Pretty quickly, NASA caught up to then far outran the capabilities of all other organizations in space exploration. In the 1960’s, NASA accomplished absolutely amazing things which included the Apollo missions putting people on the moon six times. The stunning rescue of Apollo 13 was largely a leadership demonstration. The list of firsts is incredible: in 1972, going