Moneyball News - Summer 2025
Motivational Moment
“Never get so busy making a living
that you forget to make a life.”
Work-life balance is about managing the demands of work with the needs and desires of your personal life, including time for family, hobbies, and self-care. Achieving a healthy work-life balance is crucial for reducing stress, preventing burnout, and enhancing overall well-being.
Book Spotlight
Keys to high performance from the book RELENTLESS SOLUTION FOCUS by Dr. Jason Selk & Dr. Ellen Reed
Humans instinctively focus on problems. Problem-centered focus (PCF) thinking causes increased stress levels, pressure and underperformance as a result.
The one characteristic all phenomenally successful people share is mental toughness. They possess the uncanny ability to control what goes on between their ears.
We overload our brains with problems. Pick no more than 3 problems and shift to solve them. There is always a solution. Always.
Progress over perfection. What is one thing I can do to make this better? Learn to chip away at your problems rather than solving them in their entirety.
Research confirms that confidence is the number one variable affecting a person’s performance. Recognize your done-wells daily.
Story Time
Balanced Scorecards
Business success comes pulling together the pieces of a a puzzle. That’s where Balanced Scorecards come into play. They measure progress for each input driver and connect the “silos”. Balanced Scorecards help prioritize solving problems by understanding the ROI on solutions including the potential impact to the related parts.
Unleash Insight
Balanced Scorecard Framework
ROI: What is the value of increasing the volume or productivity component of each business input driver?
EFFORT: What is the cost including time of internal resources to implement each solution?
RISKS: As we increase volume (add a salesperson) or increase productivity (higher gross margins) how may it impact the other components on the scorecard?
CULTURE: How does each solution fit into your company’s purpose and goals?
Pro Tip: List out your team’s priorities. Grade each of these 4 areas. Which 3 of your priorities are most valuable with the lowest risk while fitting the company culture?
Closing: Pulling It Together
“Nothing more chaotic than trying to rope this creative ball of energy together... one night only to get this right.”
A NETFLIX
DOCUMENTARY
The Making of
“We Are The World”
Watch Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie solve the creative chaos of cramming 40-plus celebrity egos into a single recording studio. “We Are the World” gathered together dozens of pop and rock luminaries on one unprecedented night to raise millions of dollars in humanitarian aid for African famine relief.
We Are The World
40+ Celebrity Egos