More football, you exclaim? Yes, its another football-related post. Sorry friends...when it's Fall and the weather starts to cool, my mind gets a bit preoccupied with all things pigskin. If you have no interest in the NFL, just bear with me for a few more weeks and I'll try to make this as painless as possible. Now, to the issue at hand and it involves the gentleman over to the left. He might be recognizable or he might not. His name is Charlie Weis and earlier this week he officially became the former Head Coach for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. To paraphrase Marc Antony (Roman not singer), I come neither to bury Weis nor to praise him. Instead, I think there are a couple of career lessons we can extract from Charlie Weis's fate.

How many of us have ever felt like Vince Young, quarterback for the NFL’s Tennessee Titans? He was once a heralded first round draft pick by the Titans but after a knee injury in his first game of the 2008 season, he was relegated to a backup role for the remainder of the year and [...]

For those of you who follow football, the firing of Matt Millen should not come as a great shock (and for those of you who happen to still follow Detroit Lions football, it likely comes as a Day of Liberation). If you don’t happen to follow or care for the american-style pigskin sport, this is [...]

Update 11.10.07: Sanity prevails…the Vikings decide that a funeral for a dead grandmother is actually more important than a football game (link via ESPN) Most employers actually care about their employees when a loved one dies…which is why the owner of the Minnesota Vikings should immediately pull his head from his posterior and see the [...]

I heard a great story the other day which emphasizes how important our actions are…even when we think we’re not actually doing anything important. It involves the infamous Ice Bowl football game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers for the 1967 NFL Championship. This games isn’t referred to as “the Ice Bowl” for [...]

I’m not sure about you, but the Super Bowl ads this year sucked like nobody’s business. Can someone explain to me how you can justify spending all that money ($2.6 million by some counts) to get your name out there and produce such lousy, uninteresting, and tepid commercials? I usually enjoy the ads as much [...]

If you’re a manager or other stripe of executive who happens to leave one organization for another, I implore you not to pull an “Erickson.” What’s an Erickson, you ask? It’s a decidedly anti-leader move that firmly and publicly announces how much the current company and its employees have held you back from greatness. Why is [...]

Well, leave it to Kathy Sierra to inspire me to do something else. She asks a seemingly simple question about why many people (and I’m included here) don’t like to exercise when most animals crave it. She muses… Take a human out of his work cubicle or off the couch and turn him loose outside. [...]

Ah, football season approaches so you’ll likely see a lot of metaphors popping up on this blog and her sister blogs. By the way…Go Steelers. Okay, now I’m better. It’s not untypical for players to get all enthusiastic during practice and keep the aggression of the play going after the whistle blows. There may be [...]

We all know how the United States basketball team fared at the 2004 Olympics and a similar thing seems to be happening with the U.S. Ryder Cup golf team. Both groups, filled with exceptionally talented individuals and seemingly dominant on paper compared to the competition, provide a stark reminder of one of the pitfalls of [...]