Tag: Sports

From $300 Cookie Jar to $13.4 Billion Empire: 11 Game-Changing Business Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods

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The incredible entrepreneurial journey that transformed a grandmother's life savings into America's largest sporting goods retailer From a tiny bait shop to over 720 stores generating $13.4 billion annually In 1948, an 18-year-old high school graduate who barely made it through school stormed out of his job at an Army surplus store. His boss had just torn up his carefully crafted list of fishing equipment recommendations, calling him a "dumb kid who didn't know what...

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Bridging Generational Gaps with Social Technology

CMMA E-Visions Newsletter | Summer 2012 Building connections across Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials Our Social Platform Initiative At work, we are building out an internal social application that combines some of the best features of Quora/Stack Overflow/Yahoo Answers (Q&A), Twitter/Facebook (Microblogging), and Bit.ly (link analytics). The thought process behind building the platform is to provide an online community for employees to connect, learn, and grow. The Push vs. Pull Communication Challenge The...

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When Feedback Creates Competition

The Legendary Meeting Between Ferruccio Lamborghini and Enzo Ferrari Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder of the iconic luxury sports car brand I love my lunchtime chats with coworkers, and I know they are anything but typical. We get into some interesting subjects, and I always seem to take away at least one thing every lunch hour. Somehow the topic of Ferrari's came up a few months ago and after doing some fact checking I found what they...

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Yosemite

I went to Yosemite yesterday with Christina and her family, or maybe they went with me? Any how, we all went to Yosemite yesterday and the weather was beautiful. I've been fighting a cold I got from Tyler but got through the day pretty well despite a nagging cough and fire hydrant nose. On the shuttle ride back from Yosemite Falls everyone on the bus saw a black beer but for some reason I couldn't...

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Dallas Cowboys Stadium Tour

This morning we had our CMMA Board Meeting which was the work part, but the fun part was taking a private tour of the Dallas Cowboys stadium this afternoon!  The stadium is amazing, and the stadium screen is even more amazing.  I certainly didn't expect to get to do this on the tour, but we pretty much got to see every part of the stadium including the locker room and even go on the field...

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