Fixing The Devils
The season is a bit past the quarter post, and the Devils look like the leftovers on an Atlantic City buffet table. It’s just not pretty. Seven goals in a five-game road trip, three points out of a possible ten, and they’re looking at the Islanders’ tail pipe in the standings. It’s not a lack [...]
Bump In The Night
We got bumped last night. More specifically, our youth Devils hockey game was bumped 30 minutes later by the NHL Devils, who wanted a sheet of ice this morning. Such is life when you share your home rink with a professional team; they get dibs, next up, quarter on the machine, and any other euphemism [...]
With All Due Respect: Hail, Rutgers
This is a first and probably a last: I’m going to write about football. Not the kind of football that my British boss plays, but the American kind, the subject of analogies and great coaching stories and quarter-century retrospectives. Start with New Jersey jokes. Slather on a healthy dose of random naming (Rutgers, The State [...]
Changing My Mind With A Big Stick
I spoke on the “Innovation At Speed” panel today hosted by the Suffolk University Center for Innovation and Change Leadership. Great panelists around me: Kory Kolligian, Chief Operating Officer, Design Continuum Angela Kyle, Director, TIAA-CREF Robert Wong, Executive VP and Creative Director, Arnold Worldwide Advertising Robert Zeytoonian, Chief Executive Officer, Zorian Bat Company Beate Chelette, [...]
James Campion on CBGB
I’m on a bit of a James Campion kick right now, having recently subscribed to his email list which supplants the need to read the Aquarian (and being in North Jersey, it’s nearly impossible to find that long-standing tabloid anyway). His obituary for punk club CBGB is required reading for anyone who listens, has listened, [...]
Simple Physical Game, Complex Mental Game
Hockey is a simple game. Sticks made from trees, skates handed down to you from older family members, pucks that have seen happier days, ice where you can get it. At least that’s the Norman Rockwell-meets-Canada version of simple. Even with $200 Warrior sticks, custom-molded skates, pucks that are carefully chilled by our team’s puck [...]
Community Sustainability and a Hockey Love Story
It’s been a long week, but I think they always feel like that when you start off sick and then play catch-up for days. Had a few conversations about long-term sustainability, ranging from an interview with John Fowler’s internal systems group communications team to preparation for a panel next Wednesday at Suffolk University Law School [...]