Lessons from Little League: Dealing with Umps & Working With What You’re Given
Little League – like business and life – is imperfect. Umps in our home league are mostly volunteer umps. Some of the umps have inconsistent strike zones. The good ones have consistent strike zones and of course the best ones have consistent and tight reasonable strike zones. Bad umps are the toughest because hitters can’t […]
Lessons from Little League: Learning from Mistakes
A few weeks ago, I wrote my first lessons from little league post on motivation and then my second post on building a team. As I previously mentioned, my life seems to be increasingly immersed in baseball. While the daily exercises of work and life never slow down, as spring rolls around I somehow figure out […]
Lessons from Little League: Building a Team
After my writing my last post on Lessons from Little League, I happen to catch a similar post on Roger Ehrenberg’s blog. Clearly he and I are both so immersed in baseball during the season that we tend to relate everything to baseball and baseball to everything around us. Like Roger, I’ve gained a tremendous […]