Author: Chet

Littlest is 65 and heading to double knee replacement a week from now. He will have his shoulder replaced immediately after. 2021 is a hard year for the Littlest Fricker. You wouldn’t know it looking at his production. He runs the best high end home building business in our fine city. He, Andy, Brett, and … Continue reading Littlest…

The year was 1995. I’d been to The Center for Creative Leadership back in 1993 and was starting The CompuServe Leadership Institute. I had no clue. So, we had one of our first management training programs and brought leaders into Columbus from all over the world. I figured they wouldn’t want to hear from just … Continue reading Tired together…

You don’t really learn shit sitting in a classroom. At best, you learn how to learn. I didn’t. Some do. Here’s how most learn. We learn by doing shit we don’t know how to do but want to, or better yet, have to. We learn by leaving our family business because we want to build … Continue reading Learning…

I tasted my first Coors (3.2, for those old enough to know) around age 17.  Tasted weird. Smelled worse. I drank it with friends so it went down fairly easily. The Paramount bar allowed 18 year olds to come in and play shuffleboard and mini bowling while having a cold one. It was easy and … Continue reading Alcohol and me…

We’ve all heard plenty of Tiger stories. Here’s one that blew my mind about his hunger for feedback. Back in 2000, one of my clients mom volunteered to be a chauffeur at the 2000 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. She was assigned to drive for Tiger Woods. This was the tournament where he beat the … Continue reading Feedback…

Today, during practice eleven with a team feeling like they’re just this side of Heaven, I asked them to write about their most important asset. Whenever we ask them in BTL team practice, we mostly hear one answer - the team. This is not correct. Fact. Your most important asset is you. So, leader, how … Continue reading How you become Y.O.U.

Today, turning up the river road, I knew it was going to be a harder than normal ride. Stomach was unhappy last evening. Sleep was interrupted. Recovery worse than normal. Emotionally drained from more practice than normal. Miss still not back to anywhere near 100%. All these factors matter when it comes to endurance. So, … Continue reading Endure…

Aristotle was right. You are what you repeatedly do. Here’s what he didn’t say but I’m sure was thinking. Do not mistake thinking with doing. You are not your thoughts. You are what you do, even with your thinking, friend. You are not your good intentions. You are not what you’re preparing to do, you … Continue reading CCOF…