11/10/2023 0 Comments 31 thoughts elliott friedman![]() ![]() Either way, they are both terrible ways to lose.’” “But the hardest question was, ‘Would you rather lose in a blowout or in a heartbreaking game?’ I didn’t know how to answer it.” “I wouldn’t say there was anything weird,” he said Tuesday night. OHL Saginaw’s Cole Perfetti, who will be a high first-round selection in the upcoming draft, said he’s had four phone interviews this week with NHL clubs. Some work continues, as normally as possible. The second is “Healthier Me” - a program providing elementary-school students tools to make healthy decisions.ģ. Examples: Exploring the engineering behind hockey equipment, and geometric constructions/how angles are a key component of the game. One is “Hockey Scholar” - an interactive hockey-themed STEM curriculum for middle-school and elementary-school students. Like most kids, he’ll listen to anyone else before he listens to his parents.Īs of Wednesday morning, the NHL and NHLPA made their Future Goals program available to teachers and parents. My son’s school has done an excellent job of making available between two and four online classes per day. “Occasionally, I might eat a bad meal or something, passing gas on the bus, so I think that left a mark.”Ģ. “He’s been sitting behind me on the bus for whatever, 10 to 12 years now,” Rask said. Tuukka Rask guested on Tuesday, and was asked about Zdeno Chara’s assertion that the goalie is rotten to the core. Thank you to WEEI Boston’s The Greg Hill Show for doing the investigative reporting we all needed. That’s what I remind myself - especially now.ġ. If you don’t believe in your leaders, you can lead yourself. The tone you set as a leader has an enormous effect on the people around you. This isn’t about saying things are good when they’re not, and it’s not about conveying some innate faith that “things will work out.” It’s about believing you and the people around you can steer toward the best outcome, and not communicating the feeling that all is lost if things don’t break your way. Especially in difficult moments, the people you lead need to feel confident in your ability to focus on what matters, and not to operate from a place of defensiveness and self-preservation. Optimism sets a different machine in motion. Pessimism leads to paranoia, which leads to defensiveness, which leads to risk aversion. No one could have handled the stress that Michael was under perfectly, but optimism in a leader, especially in challenging times, is so vital. Decisions get made from a protective, defensive posture…. Michael had plenty of valid reasons to be pessimistic, but as a leader you can’t communicate that pessimism to the people around you. He would literally say to me, ‘The sky is falling,’ and over time a sense of doom and gloom began to permeate the company. I would occasionally answer my phone and Michael would be on the line saying that he’d just been in the shower, or on a plane, or in a conversation over lunch, and had become convinced that something we were doing was going to fail, someone was going to overtake us, some deal was going to go south. In many ways, (Michael) handled the trouble to come admirably and stoically, but it was impossible not to fall prey to pessimism and paranoia as the stress became more intense. Iger talks about Michael Eisner, his predecessor, in the aftermath of the Sept. One passage from the book really stood out to me. Iger, who started at the bottom, is Disney’s Chairman. Right now, I’m reading The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger. I really enjoyed it, and hope you will too. ![]() Even if you refuse to listen to anything Jeff and I say (and really, who can blame you?), listen to what Gervais has to say. We asked him for some strategies to help people manage their way through the pandemic. His emphasis: cultivating mental skills critical to elite performance. Gervais worked with Pete Carroll on the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks. ![]()
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