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Super Bowl 2017

January 27, 2017 By Tom Mungavan Leave a Comment

crack_wall_football_400_clr_18764 smTwo of our coaching clients are playing in the Super Bowl!! We are excited to see these men in the biggest game of the year for American Football fans. The Super Bowl has become a social occasion as well as a sporting event in the US. Seeing men we have coached, who are playing in this big event, makes it very special! Since they are both playing for the Atlanta Falcons … we know who to cheer for during the game.

Ra'Shede Hageman and Carol Keers
Ra’Shede Hageman and Carol Keers

For several years we have been providing pro bono coaching for the University of Minnesota Gopher Football Team players.  We provide extra individual coaching for the top players going for the Big Ten Media Days each year.

Ra’Shede Hageman was 6ft 6in (198 cm) and over 300 pounds (136 kg) when we worked with him.  Carol saw him a few months after coaching and she asked Ra’Shede “How are you doing?” and his response was, “The question is, how do YOU think I’m doing?”  They then took the selfie picture on the left. He now plays for the Atlanta Falcons.

De'Vondre Campbell
De’Vondre Campbell

De’Vondre Campbell is a similar height. He is a great football player and an engaging personality. He had completed his bachelor’s degree when we worked with him, and was being certified in human resources.

These guys are very special to us. Carol is know as the “Brownie Mom” for the team because over the last ten years we have baked fantastic homemade brownies for the team before their first game of the season. The players come into the program as 18 year-old kids away from home … maybe for the first time. Carol offered to use her State Fair ribbon winning baking skills to give them a touch of home. One of the players took one bite of a brownie and said, “These are the best brownies I have ever had … don’t tell my mom I said that!”

So…we feel like we have two of our kids playing in the Super Bowl!

The Revenge of Analog

January 24, 2017 By Tom Mungavan Leave a Comment

They get together for a drink and dinner after work. All six women place their phones in a stack in the middle of the table. If anyone grabs their phone before the evening is over … they buy dinner.  Imagine how much they might actually talk to each other!  Well, my millennial daughter reported doing that with her friends. It is brilliant.   Too many of us are addicted to our technology … including me.

Revenge of Analog book We have clients who report destroying their precious family time by checking email and text messages … or worse … answering phone calls during dinner.  Clients who have chosen to put their phones on mute until after their children have gone to bed have reported being more relaxed, better parents, and they still get their jobs done. Clearly there is a conflict with our obsessive use of digital devices and a sane life.

David Sax’s new book “The Revenge of Analog” tells several stories of the younger generation abandoning digital and embracing analog in several areas.  It turns out that it’s more than nostalgia.  Studies have found that doing creative work on paper first can be a more creative process than starting with digital tools.  Digital tools tend to pull people into detail too quickly, rather than building out the concepts first.

Leather bound blank books are back in style. Moleskine binders come in many styles and are in high demand. Handwriting reportedly increases retention, more so than typing. Moleskine even has a partnership with Evernote that allows you to easily scan your hand- written notes into you computer, or the cloud.  I knew there had to be a catch.

A bit of nostalgia and good business has brought vinyl records back into high demand. Vinyl has the highest profit margin, is growing the fastest, and is reigniting the manufacture of turntables (remember those?).  High quality paper magazines and camera film are also finding new and profitable markets.

Blog text on typewriter
Blog text on typewriter

I listened to a radio show that was responding to listener feedback. The sound effect they used was a manual typewriter, complete with the bell at the end of the line.  I thought to myself that half of the audience would not even recognize what the sound was. It has been a long time since I disposed of my IBM Selectric typewriter.  I certainly would not use it for my blog.  But,  it served it’s purpose and there are still a few authors who find it their tool of choice.

Like so many similar books, Sax tends to press his case a little too hard for my taste. However, he is definitely raising important issues, and he is raising the key question about whether something should be digitized just because it can be digitized. He has interesting stories. He shares some examples that inform the questions that we should be asking, and he challenges assumptions that may not meet the test of time.  It is a book that’s worth the read … or the listen … if you like digitized audio books.

 

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