READ Often seen as “the easiest job in the NFL” – the “clipboard holder.” Why would I say that the correct mindset is to think like a back-up quarterback? (It’s not because I’m from Michigan State and we typically have the most back-up quarterbacks in the NFL – see Drew Stanton, Cardinals, Brian Hoyer, Patriots…
Read MoreREAD Sitting at my 8 year old son’s basketball game today, I realized I was having more fun than normal. I mean, I love every minute of watching he and his friends play, but up until today, they were 0-3 for the season, losing a few nail-biters, but playing well and improving each week. Now,…
Read MoreREAD I’ll never forget the feeling. The feeling of being so unimportant. So replaceable. So like nobody gave an eff about me. It was eye opening. For the first split second I hated it, my stomach dropped and I choked up. Walking out the same side door I had buzzed in the last seven years…
Read MoreREAD In the summer of 1991, as I was heading into Fifth Grade in a new elementary school after a cross-town move, I found myself with a across-the-street neighbor. A man in his early 20s who was quite extraordinary, but thought of himself as just an ordinary Joe. He happened to be the best young…
Read MoreREAD Do you remember your first boyfriend or girlfriend? I mean, your first SERIOUS boyfriend or girlfriend. Not the love of your life, necessarily, but someone very important to you. Someone you think of often, even have dreams about? Okay, I’ll calm down now. But for real though, this “person” to me was actually not…
Read MoreREAD I’m NOT trying to get political, but I do have a Mt. Rushmore of my own. While the purpose of the Mt. Rushmore memorial is “to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt,” as business people, we all have our…
Read MoreListen Read Thoughts I want to share around building my team as my company grows, molding myself into a role as my team grows from 1 to 6 people in a span of about 8 or 9 months. So let me explain. When I started my company Data Driven Design and my partnership with SnapShot Interactive as VP of…
Read MoreListen Read Well, it’s much easier said than done. I’m lucky in that this person is someone who is basically a mentor to me, and I remember our time together vividly. While the sheer fact they even reached out to me as a reference for this new opportunity may have been a dead giveaway we…
Read MoreListen Read Testing out some new amazing technology via an app called Anchor.fm, I was able to get my first podcast up and running recently, and deciding to interview my amazing father, Dan Hickey (@hickeygroup) for some 41+ years of perspective on leadership, coaching and education. Dan is the founder and CEO of Hickey Leadership Group,…
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