On a cool fall night in Lubbock, TX, Mike Leach’s Texas Tech Red Raiders football team had eight seconds to pull off the unthinkable. The year was 2008. On the opposing sideline stood Mack Brown – head coach of the number one ranked Texas Longhorns. Three seasons ago, Brown hoisted

Below is a question I received from a good friend that turned into a glimpse of how I believe skills should be acquired, blended, and tested so they can show up when the lights turn on. This process (and piece) is not a finished product, but I think it is

In 1974, Paul Slovic – Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon – put a group of professional horse gamblers to the test. Slovic, a pupil under Nobel researcher Daniel Khaneman, designed a series of horse races. The gamblers – men and women who made a living off their

Back in 1956, the New York Police Department was desperate. Over the past two years, the city had become victim to 10 different bombing attacks. The events were recognized not as isolated incidents, but a series of interrelated crimes traced back to one elusive man. The man responsible became known

The fourth quarter of the 1991 NBA Finals was about to begin. Magic Johnson’s Los Angeles Lakers and Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls were deadlocked at 80 in a decisive game five. Jordan, over the first seven years of his career, had established himself as one of the most dynamic scorers

In the early 2000s, Michael Lewis was investigating a theory. In 1999, he published The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story. Born from his experiences working at Salomon Brothers – American multinational bulge bracket investment bank – Lewis detailed the growing entrepreneurial culture just south of San Francisco at the

Towards the end of the 2007 season, the New York Yankees were forced to come to terms with a glaring problem they couldn’t ignore any longer. Derek Jeter – the man who had become the face of their franchise since his debut in 1995 – was a defensive liability. Next