The Compass Alliance

31 Jan Miles To Go

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“We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.” -John Dewey 2020 is underway. Deadlines – meetings – reports – emails – the latest crisis. That holiday break back in December – does it seem like a distant memory yet? For many of us – YES! The...

04 Sep Lessons My Grandson Taught Me

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My grandson turned 2 recently. The baby is gone – replaced by a toddler with infinite energy, boundless curiosity, and an eagerness to experience everything the world has to offer. Our annual family vacation to the beach has just come to an end. There is a stretch of...

13 Aug The Games People Play

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I saw something amazing the other day. In a high school baseball game in a far-away country with teams and players I couldn’t ever hope to remember. I saw an example of integrity. Maybe I noticed it because I don’t seem to see it as much anymore. Or...

12 Aug Professionals, Pretenders, and All the Rest

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I can’t find my desk this morning. I know it’s somewhere amongst the clutter of bookshelves, bureaus, chairs, and what looks like a dining room table turned on its side – but with the plastic tarps over everything it’s kind of hard to say. This is home...

08 Aug Leadership Lessons That Transcend the Ballpark

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It’s been 31 years since the movie Bull Durham premiered. Arguably one of the best sports/romantic comedies of all time I would argue – but then again I am a sucker for a “feel good” flick – and the story of Crash Davis, the perennial...

29 May Simple Truths

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In 1799 a French soldier by the name of Pierre-Francois Bouchard stumbled on a building stone near the Nile River that forever changed human history. Bouchard was likely more concerned with the Napoleonic campaign with the British than he was some old rock with strange...

20 May Crisis Leadership – What Now?

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Last month a guy named James Adducci laid down an $85,000 bet in Vegas that Tiger Woods would win the Masters. He pocketed a cool 1.19 million on his bold gamble. Talk about hutzpah! I’m not too skilled at the fine art of gambling. I’ve always sort of...

11 May Career Advice I Learned the HARD Way

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“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no telling where you might be swept off to.” -Frodo quoting Bilbo, The Fellowship of the Ring I heard...

10 May Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock

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I subscribe to The 1440 Principle. Its tenets are pretty simple. All of us have three unique resources at our disposal: Our time Out talent Our passion Two of the resources are renewable. One isn’t – and that’s our time. I’ll get 1,440 minutes today....

15 Mar In Your Career, Space ISN’T the Final Frontier

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I got pulled into a Black Hole a number of years ago. Well, not in the literal sense but the feeling must have been somewhat similar to the deep space version – or at least I tell myself it was. A deep empty void – confusing –...

Author: Tim Cole

31 Jan Miles To Go

04 Sep Lessons My Grandson Taught Me

13 Aug The Games People Play

12 Aug Professionals, Pretenders, and All the Rest

08 Aug Leadership Lessons That Transcend the Ballpark

29 May Simple Truths

20 May Crisis Leadership – What Now?

11 May Career Advice I Learned the HARD Way

10 May Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock

15 Mar In Your Career, Space ISN’T the Final Frontier