Category Archives: Team Building
Touches
Success in basketball depends on how many “touches” you get. You can’t shoot the ball or get points or get assists if you can’t get any “touches”. If you’re a dependable ball handler or shooter, you’ll get lots of “touches”. Your coach and team mates will seek you out. However, “touches” don’t come easy. You […]
Read moreForce the Issue
In describing the ERTIA UNLIMITED “Lifecourse Diagram”, one of the major points to be made is how important it is to make ourselves “helpable” … i.e., by showing some degree of initiative … by being a “Player” , with an inclination to advance and with some reasonable prospects and positive possibilities of making life happen. […]
Read moreBuck Stops Here
The wife was cleaning out the refrigerator shelves but couldn’t figure out how to remove a retaining rack, so she called Super-Hurango for help! [OK, it was probably a ploy to make retired SH feel useful!] A 22-second assessment, including two “trial” but failed approaches, finally ended in a successful rack removal venture. [She then […]
Read moreBreaking Better
I reflexively wince when seeing or hearing reference to the Kentucky motto: “Unbridled Spirit”. Of course, there’s the superficial first inclination – at least in Kentucky – to conjure images of “unbridled” horses galloping idyllically through open meadows, running with the wind. How liberating! One also might picture the unbridled, unsaddled horses of […]
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Ed Romond loved mathematics. After high school, he got a BA in math, and started his career teaching high school math in Boston. While his wife was matriculating through a Psychiatric Nursing program, she planted a seed of alternative interest, suggesting that Ed consider a more challenging career possibility in medicine. He was intrigued: it […]
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