By Eric Gombrich As a sailboat racer I’ve long appreciated the importance of knowing my singular destination. The difference between winning and losing after days of racing can often times be determined by mere seconds. During the journey, any ambiguity in the specific destination sought can be the difference between victory and defeat. Any distraction…
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Words Matter….and They Don’t!
By Eric Gombrich I was in a meeting a few weeks back and a colleague made the statement “Words matter!” The context of the statement was that another person had recently said something, and my colleague had bristled at what was said. It was obvious that my colleague was bothered by what was said. To…
This isn’t ‘The Field of Dreams’
By Eric Gombrich “If you build it, he will come” is the famous line from the 1989 film “Field of Dreams” starring Kevin Costner as farmer Ray Kinsella, and James Earl Jones as Terence Mann, both dreamers of days gone by with a passion for baseball. The premise of the statement is that if Ray…
