Basketball

Avon Calling *

At forward, a 6’10” senior from Avon, Indiana, and Keough Hall… A.J. Burgett! After Burgett sat on the bench for all but 41 minutes of the 2015-16 season and played only 8 minutes in the first 8 conference games, I don’t think anyone saw that announcement coming. Burgett’s start in Sunday’s victory over Wake Forest…

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Disaster Recovery

In the business world, anticipating and planning for disasters is common practice. The business is logically separated into its components, and each part is assessed for likelihood of failure and impact of the loss. Businesses build redundancy for high impact components when possible, and they develop contingency plans for quickly replacing them if lost for…

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Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away! * Troy Murphy’s jersey #3 will be raised to the Purcell Pavillion rafters on Saturday. He will join Austin Carr, Adrian Dantley, Skylar Diggins, Luke Harangody, Tom Hawkins, Ruth Riley, and Digger Phelps in the Notre Dame Basketball Ring of Honor…

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Building Trust

American scholar, organizational consultant, and author Warren Bennis, who is widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership studies, identified four competencies of leadership in a classic 1984 essay. They are: Management of attention Management of meaning Management of trust Management of self To my knowledge, the late Dr Bennis never argued…

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Tick Tock

At this time last season, making the NCAA Tournament was the goal of Notre Dame basketball fans. The Irish had a rare losing 2013-14 season. Jerian Grant was back and playing very well, but the team was just starting to play to his extraordinary skills. There was a nice overtime victory at home vs Michigan…

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