by Mike Shannon | Mar 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
Pick a business management or leadership book. It’ll provide some emphasis on conflict, dynamic tension, debate, etc. The experts generally agree that in order to chisel down to the best decisions and focused priorities for a company, conflict is a necessary...
by Mike Shannon | Mar 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
I had one stack of rhyme notebooks and two problems: I couldn’t figure out where to share them, and I was afraid of what would happen if I did. A dingy closet-sized bedroom in Wicker Park served as my first humble abode in Chicago, circa 2013. Mattress on the ground,...
by Mike Shannon | Mar 25, 2021 | Entrepreneurship
One of my favorite teammates approached my desk, moving fast… “Mike! When I saw the article last night. I thought, well, I said, ‘Where’s Mike? What happened? I swear I was just talking to him earlier today!’” The indication: maybe Mike got fired. My wife received an...
by Mike Shannon | Mar 25, 2021 | Athletics
“The day Kobe Bryant died.” That phrase still doesn’t make sense. Not to me or to you. He’s Kobe. He’s the poster(s) on the wall. The sticker on the Gameboy cartridge. A staple of this generation’s reality — whether or not you were a kid watching basketball...
by Mike Shannon | Mar 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
You can’t spend a decade building a curiosity focused ed-tech company without being wildly & continuously curious about understanding exactly how learning works. At Packback, we fuel our own curiosity on this subject matter via primary research studies,...
