April 20, 2020

Why Catchers Make Great Managers

A baseball catcher is the closest position to a manager in sports. In this article, I look at how the greatest catchers coach their pitchers to the next level.

April 13, 2020

Fast Money Is Fool’s Gold

This is the story of my friends who became overnight millionaires and gave it all back.

April 6, 2020

Leading A Team In A Crisis

I examine the team dynamics of a steel company in crisis in this article. The lessons in leadership apply in any high-pressure business situation.

March 30, 2020

No One Should Be Surprised By A Layoff

The only thing worse than reducing your workforce is notifying people who felt they were safe. I examine an ugly example of a layoff gone wrong and three lessons learned from the experience.

March 22, 2020

Lessons From The Credit Crisis That Apply Today

History is our best teacher for how to proceed in a crisis. In this article, I examine my personal experience with a home builder during the credit crisis to demonstrate how leaders can act today.

March 17, 2020

What If You’re Wrong? When Not To Go Against The Grain As A Leader

Conventional wisdom states that leaders should zig when others zag. But is this advice prudent when it involves the safety of your team? When your decisions impact the well-being of others, lean instead on the wisdom of crowds.

by Ian Mathews

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March 10, 2020

On Building A Winning Culture

This article examines a strategy that works for CEO's of Fortune 500 companies and coaches of youth sports teams. To build a winning team, these two conditions must be met.

February 10, 2020

What Are You Willing To Crawl Through For Success?

Andy Dufresne crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit-smelling foulness I can’t even imagine, or maybe I just don’t want to. Five hundred yards, that’s the length of

January 31, 2020

Fortune Favors The Bold

A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken.

January 27, 2020

Luck Is A Function Of Effort

"I'm getting on the jumbotron tonight." It's good to have a goal, and this was mine on June 11, 1998. I was a broke college intern who scored Stanley Cup tickets

by Ian Mathews

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