Integrity or Results: Which do you value?
Golf, like life, is a collection of transactions and relationships that change as you travel around the course or community. It is easy to take shortcuts along the way, like tossing a ball from behind a rock or not counting a wiff. It’s easy to tell little “white” lies to smooth over embarrassing situations. Integrity, however, is often at […]
Good Advice for All Managers (and Parents)
It’s said that when former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean died in a plane crash in 1958, an envelope was found among his personal effects. On the back of the envelope, Dean had scribbled nine lessons that he had learned in life. Every manager would be wise to take note of each one: Never […]
What’s Your Company’s Value(s)?
Over the last few months we’ve shared in this space how we at Play-a-Round Golf conduct business to ensure that what we do is guided by the “how” of our values. Centuries ago an entrepreneur sent a letter to a small group and explained how they should care for one another. We want our business […]
Humility: Competitive Advantage?
Business student, Jim Collins, wrote a best seller several years ago regarding companies that transitioned from good to great. Employees of these companies described their CEOs as having large measures of humility and leading their companies toward sustained growth by doing what they could with what they had to make their customers’ lives better. Humility […]
