Tag: camp tour
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Guest appearance on the Lake of the Woods & Greenwoods Camps Podcast
My recent discussion with Noah Friedland of Lake of the Woods & Greenwoods Camps recently went live, check it out here or wherever you listen to podcasts. Noah, a campus director at the four-camp masterpiece chronicled about by This American Life, was nice enough to invite me on the podcast after we crossed paths at…
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My First Podcast Episode
Look Mom, I’m on a podcast! The Camp Consultant’s first podcast appearance recently went live, check it out here on the Go Camp Pro website or wherever you listen to podcasts. Liberty Lake Day Camp owner/director Andy Pritikin was nice enough to invite me on the podcast after we crossed paths at an ACA NY/NJ…
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The Dream Camp Director
After speaking with 50+ camp directors and traveling the country visiting camps, I’ve developed a sense for what makes a camp director succeed. With this perspective, if I were to craft my dream camp director, I’d call upon six components from these camp standouts… The heart of Shibley Day Camp’s Heath Levine – Just as…
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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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