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What Camp Can Learn From Corporate America
Last post, I wrote about the 3 lessons that corporate America can learn from summer camps. In this post, I’ll describe the inverse… the three largest lessons that summer camps can learn from the traditional business world. 1) Feedback is a gift – seek it out The single most important lesson I learned at Stanford’s…
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What Corporate America Can Learn From Camp
Summer camps have a lot to teach the traditional business world. As one of the most long-standing and recession resilient industries around, summer camps have gotten some things absolutely right. I believe the three most important lessons that corporations can learn from summer camp are: 1) Improvisation wins the day The late, great John Wooden…
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The 3 things Camp Champions got ABSOLUTELY right
17 summers spent singing songs and stampeding through the wilderness has solidified camp’s place in my heart. I’ve spent the last two years at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Graduate School of Education looking critically at what makes camp so powerful. This summer I traveled the country visiting day camps and overnight camps, trying…
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The First Blog – Goals
To tip things off, I have three goals for this blog: To practice putting consumable content out into the world To document my unique and evolving perspectives on the camp industry To stay connected with the camp community Goal setting is a crucial component to both the business and camp worlds, but that importance will…
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