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Just in time.  The Olympic Gods aligned our family summer vacation with the exact timing of the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.  There is no other time in my life that I sit on the couch and watch beach volleyball.  My television is usually programmed to watch the NFL, MLB...

Whenever I visit with the principal of a high school, I make it a point to ask one unusual question: What do you do with the change? Just about every high school in America has a line item in its budget for vending machines. Those machines might offer Coke, they might...

Whenever I visit with the principal of a high school, I make it a point to ask one unusual question: What do you do with the change? Just about every high school in America has a line item in its budget for vending machines. Those machines might offer Coke, they might...

My family and I just spent our Spring Break with our best friends on the panhandle of Florida.  Locals call this area of Florida the "Redneck Riviera".  However, there is nothing "redneck" about the place we stayed at - Rosemary Beach is as quaint and charming as...

Aron Lees has a love story you would think grew straight out of a Nicholas Sparks novel.  A few years ago Aron was the manager of a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in the suburbs of Minneapolis and was in a seven-year serious relationship. One day while attending a...

Every company can name a handful, or sometimes, one person that represents the heart of their organization. Often times it’s not the CEO or a member of the senior executive team. It’s usually someone working hard in the trenches – someone closest to the employees and...

New England Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski missed an extra point Sunday for the first time in nine years, ending his NFL-record streak of 523 conversions. That one point played into the Patriots the AFC Championship loss. “I feel like I lost the game for the team....

Most of us have at least one teacher from our childhood that made a significant impact on our lives. Mrs. Deanne Singer, now 74 years old and retired, was that teacher in my life. Not because she was the best marketing and business teacher I had back in high school,...

When I reflect on my short 46 years on this planet, I can think of a handful of days that I would consider the greatest: • Adopting my baby sister from Seoul, Korea in 1975 • My first kiss back in 1981 (if you call that sloppy 7th grade episode an actual kiss ) •...