When you’re standing on second base and a fly ball is hit, you don’t watch the ball. You watch the third base coach. He will tell you how far to go, how fast to go and whether to stop at third or keep going. This seems to be one of the most difficult lessons to [...]
Hitters hit in streaks. Sometimes the ball looks as big as a watermelon that’s moving at a snail’s pace and you’d have to be some kind of no-talent bum not to get hit. No. It’s a foregone conclusion. Not only are you going to hit it, you’re going to crush it. Other times the ball [...]
Things I Learned About Business From Coaching Baseball (part one)
13 May
Posted by awebb as Management
I coached American Legion baseball for many years and found it to be one of the best experiences of my life. Today I realize that much of what I know about business I really learned in baseball.
Here’s an example: The other day I talked to a man who was thinking about leaving a secure profession [...]
A large part of being successful in business grows out of your success in marketing and sales. And really, what are marketing and sales but an opportunity to tell your story? It’s interesting to listen to people tell their story (or any story, for that matter.) Some people will have a crowd wrapped around their [...]
I just read an interesting article in AOPA Pilot magazine by Rod Machado (a flight instructor with 8,000 hours instructing others how to fly) in which he talks about the old aviation saying, “When disaster strikes, the first thing you should do is wind your watch.”
Of course, we don’t wear watches anymore that need winding. [...]
I remember talking to a manager in a company I was dealing with years ago whose first question to me was, “Who else is on the team?” After some discussion, it came out that his big concern was whether he would be the weak link in the chain. ”I don’t have to be the strongest [...]
Today started out bad and got steadily worse. I woke up at 5:30 a.m. (that’s right, a.m. in the middle of the night) feeling sick and couldn’t go back to sleep. Not a good way to start the day. Since we were leaving the mountain to do some errands in the valley, I checked outside. [...]
I spent several hours the other day at the Henry’s Lake Fish Hatchery in Island Park, Idaho watching the spawners coming up the ladders to spawn. It was fabulous. The wildlife biologists have gathered over 4.5 million eggs this year — as many as they can feed with their limited budget.
But there was another side [...]
If you’re a doctor or an accountant, or some other professional, you know what continuing education is. It’s the additional education the licensing board requires you take each year to make sure you’re current in your field. In business we don’t have such a rule, although maybe we should.
It doesn’t take very long to become [...]
I talked to a close friend who spent 20 minutes in the camera store the other day trying to find someone help him. (Good thing he’s the honest type, not given to “helping himself.”) During his wait, and while growing increasingly frustrated, he noticed the company mission statement on the wall by the door to [...]
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