Mexico City Mexico City, Day 8 - Sunday I get out and check out one of the coolest programs in a big city ever. CDMX closes their busiest street from 8am to 2pm on Sundays to encourage people to be physically active.
Spanish Mexico City, Day 7 - Saturday It's Saturday and I need a bit of a break from pounding my head with Spanish. Which is probably good because my head is pounding from a night of Tequila.
Mexico City Mexico City, Day Six - Friday Excursion to City Center At 2:30PM after class we went downtown with a couple of teachers from the school. We rode the Metro downtown, which was pretty cool. Who went? Starting with me and going from right to left counterclockwise, • Hugo (teacher) • Russell (from Ohio) • Natalie (New York) • Ramon
Mexico City CDMX Day 3 It's my second day, and I'm already thinking about quitting, but not before I eat this amazing chicken sandwich.
Mexico City CDMX Day 2 Monday, my first day of class. I woke up at 5:30AM. I had a wonderful chat with my host last night and embarrassingly I can't remember her name. Which... I just looked up on the emails she sent me, is Marcela . This place is perfect but loud.
Personal Knowledge Management Do Better Now - You Need It Now When we organize information for time, there are three buckets, Now, Soon, and Someday. Let's explore the first. 0:00/1×
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Personal Knowledge Management Do Better Now - Introduction I've started a video series to share what I have learned about Personal Knowledge Management. I will also be posting the videos here. Each video is about a minute and will be posted on my social media channels each week. Introduction 0:00/1×
LinkedIn Practice At every level of baseball I coached, I assessed the players in relation to the skills they possessed and the skills they needed. My goal was never to win, but to be competitive. If we could do what the best teams did, I reasoned, the team would compete, and that
Business Working Better Together - March 2023 The Impact of Uncertainty Last month, I mentioned Urgency, the pressure to perform now, and how that can negatively affect performance. Urgency evil twin is uncertainty. Uncertainty can come from many places, but the single most common source I see in teams is the uncertainty that comes from not having
Baseball Break it Down I love Will Guidara's advice to new managers, "don't cannonball". I realize people want to make a good impression, and prove their value, however to me there is a two-part process. First, do your homework. Second, set a clear vision for what you WANT
LinkedIn Expectations are Invisible This is Part 4 of My LinkedIn Series: Leadership Lessons from Little League As little league manager, I become the repository of knowledge about the game. I also learned the expectations for each position. This is not always fun. In baseball this meant reading the little league rule book. You
Building a Personal Insight Engine Maya Angelou famously said, "When we know better, we do better." In other words, improving our knowledge can lead to better outcomes in life. This article is the first in a series designed to help you improve your knowledge more quickly so you can achieve better results sooner.
Working Better Together - Feb 2023 Understanding Urgency A sense of urgency is an interesting phenomenon. It turns out there is an optimal amount of stress we need to achieve high performance. In his book Leading Well from Within, Dr. Daniel Friedland points out that if we do not have enough stress, we lack the energy
LinkedIn Coaching Attitude and Effort This is Part 3 of My LinkedIn Series: Leadership Lessons from Little League Baseball is interesting because players of all shapes and sizes can play any position. There can be a little bit of the body-sizing that happens in other sports, but not as much. When you see a baseball
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News Welcome to My Website I would like to welcome you to the relaunch of my website. I see it as a way of cleaning-house and starting fresh. Creating a blog is an interesting process, but I had made it too convoluted and time-consuming with too many diverse topics. This made it difficult to share
Working Better Together Working Better Together - January 2023 Working Better Together, January 23. Don't lose sight of the person.
Baseball Learn The Game This is the second article in my LinkedIn series on Leadership Lessons from Little League.
hello@scottnovis.com Leadership Lessons From Little League About 15 years ago, the president of the Tempe Little League invited me to coach my son's Tee Ball team. A few years later, I started GameTruck, Left Disney, and stepped up to becoming the manager of my son's "Minors" team. It was a
