Author: Don Yaeger

Former NBA star Charles Smith asks: Is versatility your blessing or your curse?

Written on July 1, 2021.

Charles Smith Former NBA star asks: Is versatility your blessing or your curse? Corporate Competitor Podcast Episode 51 [chevron-down] Search Episodes Search by name, company or episode number. Generic...

Tom Brady Has Nothing – And Everything – Left To Prove

Written on June 30, 2021.

The host of the Late Late Show, James Corden, loves to hang out with All-Universe quarterback Tom Brady. A week ago, Corden ran a segment on the show in which he pretended to find himself with a couple of hours to kill and called his BFF Brady to enjoy a little golf. At one point early in the segment, Corden referenced an anecdote Brady related on an earlier edition of the show that aired after Brady won his seventh...

Keller Williams’ KWx CEO Carl Liebert shares two things that must happen before you can lead

Written on June 25, 2021.

Carl Liebert Keller Williams’ KWx CEO shares two things that must happen before you can lead Corporate Competitor Podcast Episode 50 [chevron-down] Search Episodes Search by name, company or episode number. Generic...

Fear Didn’t Sink Ben Simmons, Satisfaction Did

Written on June 23, 2021.

When the Philadelphia 76er’s Ben Simmons passed up an open dunk under the basket with 3:29 to play in Game 7 of Sunday’s Eastern Conference semifinal, some saw it as simply the most egregious example of how the $30.5 million All-Star guard had become afraid to shoot when his team needed him most. During Philadelphia’s seven-game series with Atlanta, Simmons failed to take a fourth-quarter shot in five of the seven...

It’s Never Too Early To Get The Sticky Stuff Out Of Our Lives

Written on June 16, 2021.

When I was an associate editor at Sports Illustrated, I was part of the team that covered the steroid scandal that was ruining Major League Baseball as a generation of batters who, only a few years earlier, had normally athletic bodies transformed themselves into hulks and began annihilating the home run record books. They weren’t just hitting more homers, they were belting them into different zip codes. That there...

Longtime Sony Pictures TV Chairman Steve Mosko asks: How do you show composure when the world around you is crumbling?

Written on June 11, 2021.

Steve Mosko Longtime Sony Pictures TV Chairman asks: How do you show composure when the world around you is crumbling? Corporate Competitor Podcast Episode 49 [chevron-down] Search Episodes Search by name, company or episode number. Generic...

CEO Of Torchy’s Tacos GJ Hart Offers His 6 Strategies For Effective Leadership

Written on June 9, 2021.

GJ Hart watched his parents take risks. First, as immigrants who left their native Netherlands for a better life in the United States, then as nose-to-the-grindstone workers who made the most of opportunity. Their lessons taught him that to find a better place he had to be similarly willing to take chances. Hart says he can barely remember a time growing up when he wasn’t working at some small job, always with the...

Two-time Masters Champion Bubba Watson asks: Can you talk about your failures?

Written on June 8, 2021.

Bubba Watson Two-time Masters Champion asks: Can you talk about your failures? Corporate Competitor Podcast Episode 48 [chevron-down] Search Episodes Search by name, company or episode number. Generic selectors Exact...

CEO of Torchy’s Tacos GJ Hart offers his 6 strategies for effective leadership

Written on June 3, 2021.

GJ Hart CEO of Torchy’s Tacos offers his 6 strategies for effective leadership Corporate Competitor Podcast Episode 47 [chevron-down] Search Episodes Search by name, company or episode number. Generic selectors Exact...