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☆ Prince Harry accepted the Pat Tillman Award at the 2024 ESPYs, but a PR expert said he should have declined the honor
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

One of the special honoree awards is the Pat Tillman Award for Service, which recognizes "a person with a strong connection to sports who has served others in a way that echoes the legacy" of Pat Tillman. AdvertisementESPN and the Pat Tillman Foundation selected Prince Harry to win the award for 2024 because of his work with the Invictus Games. Some thought Prince Harry didn't deserve the Pat Tillman AwardThe Invictus Games are a worldwide sporting competition for injured veterans. AdvertisementMary does not work for the Pat Tillman Foundation or play a role in deciding who wins the annual award. Despite the controversy, ESPN and the Pat Tillman Foundation stood by their decision, as the organizations shared in a statement with Business Insider ahead of the ESPYs.

Persons: —, Prince Harry, Pat Tillman, Pat, Duke, Duchess of, Prince Harry didn't, Harry, Mary Tillman, Chris Jackson, Mary, Duke of Sussex, Meghan Markle, Pat's, Marie Tillman Shenton, Princess Diana, Evan Nierman, Banyan, Nierman, Meghan, Serena Williams, Williams, Kevin Mazur, Neirman, Yaroslav Sabitov, Misan Harriman, Kate Middleton, Prince William, Taylor, William, Prince, Wales, It's, approachability Organizations: Service, Dolby Theatre, Business, Arizona Cardinals, NFL, Army, NPR, ESPN, Pat Tillman Foundation, Invictus, British Armed Forces, Invictus Games, Games, Daily, Getty, Aviation, Tillman Foundation, Invictus Games Foundation, PR, Netflix, Spotify, European Locations: Los Angeles, Afghanistan, Duchess of Sussex, Nigeria, Kensington, England

Whispering in the ears of the billionaires and celebrities doing the buying, however, are investment bankers. Like other sports bankers BI interviewed for our list of top sports bankers, he exemplified a good-humored, approachable attitude, including joking about his many sports allegiances. Related stories"Earlier in my career, I made the mistake of telling Bob Kraft that I was a New York Jets fan," Carey told BI recently. They're obsessive Jets fans, and they're just fans because I'm a Jets fan," Neville told BI. So that's why we'll be Jets fans forever."

Persons: it's, Goldman Sachs, Greg Carey, everyone's, Carey, Colin Neville's, he's, David Beckham, Steve Ballmer, Joe Tsai, Ballmer, Tsai, Neville, Andrew Kline, Kline, Bob Kraft, I'm, Robert Tilliss, There's, Abramovich, Vladimir Putin, Todd Boehly, Joe Lenehan, Michael Arougheti, David Rubenstein's, doesn't, there's Organizations: NBA, JPMorgan, Business, The, PJT Partners, Chelsea FC, Baltimore Orioles, Sports, Goldman, Endeavor, WWE, Microsoft, Beckham's, Los Angeles Clippers, Brooklyn Nets, Barclays Center, St, Louis Rams, Los Angeles Rams, Golden State Warriors, Miami Heat, Harvard, US Rugby National, Cal, New York Jets, BI, Patriots, Giants, Rays, Chelsea, Circle, Atlanta Hawks NBA, New York Mets, NFL, soccer's Premier League, Russian, Chelsea football, LA Dodgers, Yankees, Manchester United Games, Jets, we'll Locations: European, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Barcelona, Ukraine, New York

☆ Flag football one of five sports added to 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, alongside cricket and squash
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Ben Morse | Jill Martin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Flag football is officially one of five new sports added to the Olympic program for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. On Monday in Mumbai at the 141st International Olympic Committee (IOC) session, it was announced that flag football, baseball/softball, cricket, lacrosse and squash would be included at the Games. It will be the first time that flag football and squash will be in an Olympic Games. Cricket was included in the Paris Olympics in 1900, while lacrosse was included at St. Louis 1904 and London 1908. Our Olympic sport program, in its entirety, reflects this belief,” the chairperson of the 2028 Games’ organizing committee, Casey Wasserman, said.

Persons: Louis, Thomas Bach, –, “, Casey Wasserman, ” Organizations: CNN — Flag, 141st International Olympic Committee, Olympic Games, Cricket, Paris Olympics, St, Baseball, Tokyo, Olympic Movement, IOC, Flag, US, Lacrosse, ” Cricket, Major League Cricket Locations: Los Angeles, Mumbai, United States

☆ I'm the former VP of HR at Microsoft. I've met a few outstanding leaders in my 40-year career — and they almost all had these 4 traits.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Chris Williams | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

It's worth noting the difference in phrasing I'm using here: bad managers vs. great leaders. They may have the title, but all the best work gets done when everyone works together — themselves included. The best leaders make everything all about the objective — not about titles and rank, not about you or me, but about the shared goal. Great leaders work hard to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Here, too, great leaders recognize the power of their positions.

Persons: Chris Williams, Williams, I've, —, who's, isn't, Patience, they've, Candor, they're Organizations: Microsoft, Service, Navy, Team, asker Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Why Cities Across the US Look the Same: Remote Work, High Home Prices
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( David A. Banks | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

The shift to remote work early in the pandemic allowed wealthy residents to ditch big cities in droves and set up shop in smaller cities and towns nearby. While the surging costs of housing and the new freedom of remote work helped trigger this mass migration, small cities have been laying the groundwork over the last decade to entice these big-city refugees. Then came the pandemic, and remote work suddenly made small cities a viable home for wealthy professionals. For the past two decades, cities have turned to an economic development strategy I've deemed "the city authentic." It spiked even more during the pandemic when change of addresses from New York City jumped a whopping 787%.

Persons: Tim Burton, —, Richard Florida, millennials, DAVID BREWSTER, downtowns, weathers, It's, Alison Roman, Chrissy Teigen, it's, restaurateurs, John Greim, Instagramable cafés, David A, Banks Organizations: Urban, New York Times, Creative, The New York Times, Industrial Development Agency, IDA, Arts, Craft, Fulton, Star Tribune, Getty, Social, Business, New York City, Neighborhood Initiative, Globalization Studies, University, Albany SUNY, UUP Locations: America, Hudson, New York City, Austin , Texas, Charlotte, North Carolina, Denver , Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Louisville, Connecticut, Florida, Washington, Fulton, New York, Athens, Georgia, Tulsa , Oklahoma, Arts District, Saint Paul , Minnesota, , New York, Rensselaer, Troy, Rensselaer County, Newark , New Jersey, Dudley, Boston

☆ How MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Max Read | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Compared with the strange and compelling creatures on display elsewhere on YouTube, it can be hard to understand precisely what’s appealing about MrBeast. Eligible creators on the platform earn around half of the revenue from advertising that YouTube sells against their videos. Even within this context, Donaldson stands out for his dedication to understanding how YouTube works. For most of his teenage years, “I woke up, I studied YouTube, I studied videos, I studied filmmaking, I went to bed and that was my life,” Donaldson once told Bloomberg. “I hardly had any friends because I was so obsessed with YouTube,” he said on “The Joe Rogan Experience” last year.

Persons: Donaldson, MrBeast, ”, —, “, ” Donaldson, Joe Rogan, Rogan, Warren Buffett Organizations: YouTube, Bloomberg, Berkshire Hathaway, Forbes

☆ Read the internal Tesla employee survey from 2018, where employees called Elon Musk an 'unapproachable tyrant' who fires people 'because of his ego'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Tesla employees complained about Elon Musk's leadership and culture in a 2018 survey obtained by Insider. The survey flagged compensation, "Elon and exec team," and "care about the company's employees" as high risk areas. In her email, Toledano identified two key issues employees said they were facing: concerns over compensation and concerns about leadership at Tesla, particularly around Elon Musk. A screenshot from Tesla's 2018 employee survey, showing favorability responses from Tesla professionals, managers, executives, and directors. Read the full survey:Do you work at Tesla or for Elon Musk?

☆ Your boss' 'optimism bubble' can create a workplace disaster — here's how to prevent it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The boss who insists everything is fine while employees grumble and think the exact opposite. According to leadership expert Megan Reitz, whose research focuses on the way people interact in the workplace, there's one major cause behind the discord, what she calls the "optimism bubble." Simply put, an optimism bubble refers to the tendency of leaders to overestimate how comfortable their employees feel raising concerns at work, as Reitz explained in a September TED Talk. One of the central components of the optimism bubble is a phenomenon Reitz dubs "advantage blindness." Reitz has a straightforward, four-point playbook for helping employers better respond to their workers' concerns around simmering social issues.

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