Meaning. Nothing like starting a nice light, friendly blog post with a 50 pound bag of cement. Meaning? Can I pass please. I’ll eat the salad for lunch, I promise just as long as I don’t have to talk about meaning. I know how you feel. Aren’t pay bills, raising…

It is a funny thing when you first act on an idea. So many people ask, “where do you get your ideas?” Robert Kyosaki, of Rich Dad, Poor Dad fame, said something to the effect that “ideas are easy.” I recently came across a blog post from a game designer…

How your team interacts depends very heavily on the kind of work your team does Last week, I introduced the idea that most modern management techniques have negligible effect on team performance. They are valuable for employee retention, and manager employee relationships. However, they do not directly affect the factors…

Kids need more than competition This morning I had a chance to revisit a program we ran last summer. Bravous Esports and the City of Rockville MD ran an experiment — a “Pay for Play Virtual Esports”. The goal was to put forward a series of video game tournaments to engage the youth of Rockville…

When my kids were little, I used to lay on the floor and play the Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of time with them. Okay, technically, I played while they watched, but very often they directed me, telling me where to go and what to do. While I may have held…

In my previous articles on this topic, I walked my way through coaching two grades at a time. I started with younger children because we frequently saw these kids enrolled in introductory or opening programs. The operative word in the Aspen study finding that by 11, 70% of kids are…

At my house, we have completed nearly every single Zelda game on nearly every single platform. We even had a Wii-U. Most people had never heard of it. But when I came home and found my then 12 year old daughter parked in the Den in front of the Wii-U…

Last week, I wrote about how employees want to work for managers that are able to express a clear vision and a strategy. I also added some thoughts on what constitutes a strategy. This week, the final in my series looking at the 8 skills of great managers, we take…

Last week, I talked about coaching 9s and 10s in esports. I love coaching that age, and I pointed out that one of the most important things you can do for that age group is to role model appropriate mature emotional behavior. I call this coaching whole heartedly. This week…