by Tommy Spaulding | May 17, 2022 | Blog
Last week, I was driving my son Tate to school. I noticed he was a bit quieter than usual, so I asked if anything was on his mind. “Daddy,” he said, “I was watching TV last night and The Notebook came on.” I admit I was a little taken aback. The only movies...
by Tommy Spaulding | May 10, 2022 | Blog
A few weeks ago, my good friend Link Wilfley emailed me a story about a famous college baseball coach named John Scolinos. In 1996, after he’d been retired for a few years, Scolinos gave a keynote address at the annual American Baseball Coaches Association convention...
by Tommy Spaulding | May 3, 2022 | Blog
At the end of August 1988, my parents dropped me off for my freshman year at East Carolina University, handed me a Walmart bag full of school supplies and snacks, and drove eight hours back to New York. When I shut the door to my dorm room, I suddenly realized that I...
by Tommy Spaulding | Apr 26, 2022 | Blog
A few weeks ago, I was having dinner with my daughter, Caroline. She’s heading off to college in a few years, so I’m trying to spend as much time with her as humanly possible. We got talking about school, and she mentioned offhand that her GPA was 4.35. “I didn’t even...
by Tommy Spaulding | Apr 19, 2022 | Blog
I’ve been a full-time student and teacher of leadership for the past 30 years. I’ve coached and been coached by everyone from high school seniors to Fortune 100 CEOs. The most common question I get, no matter whom I’m coaching, is this: “What’s the most important...
by Tommy Spaulding | Apr 12, 2022 | Blog
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than four million refugees have fled the bombing and devastation. I read recently that nearly a million displaced Ukrainians have settled in Poland. Over 150,000 are now living in Krakow, increasing its population by 20...
