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  • If Your Leader Departs, Preserve the Company’s Story First

    We’ve all heard some version of this story: a brash and charismatic leader creates a runaway business success. The press can’t get enough of him. And people can’t seem to buy the products fast enough. The board and shareholders, enjoying the dizzying ride, are happy to look the other way if some of his antics sometimes seem… unconventional.

    And then disaster strikes.

    The leader dies, or gets ousted, or just gets bored, or gets old and decides to step back. After the initial shock, the company resolves to soldier on. A professional manager with an impressive resume is brought in. And the mantra is “our success is due to more than one person. This is a team effort.”

    And things actually go okay at first.

    But as time passes, it becomes clear that something is wrong. You can feel the momentum waning. Key talent gets poached, and new products don’t seem to have that old snap. The whispers begin that the company has lost its way. The press piles on. The share price plummets. The company stumbles, and is either gobbled up by a competitor or it just slowly drifts off to sleep and eventually disappears. I’m sure you have several recent examples of companies that are somewhere along this trajectory in your head right now.

    If this scenario is really as common as it seems, why don’t we know more about how to prevent it? After all, given the potential value to shareholders of solving a problem like this, you would think that corporate boards would think of almost nothing else.

    But they are focused on the wrong thing. When looking for a replacement for a charismatic leader, they look for someone with an impressive résumé instead of someone who understands the power of story. You can survive losing a leader. But if the underlying story the leader was living gets lost, you are in deep trouble.

    Charismatic leaders are charismatic because they are the living embodiment of an inspiring and universal human narrative. Branson and Kelleher are mavericks thumbing their noses at convention. Dorsey and Page are the boy geniuses inventing the future. The companies these innovators run make useful products and services to be sure. But they also make something even more important for their customers — they make meaning. These companies embody a story that everyday people can find inspiration in for their own daily lives. It is this deeper narrative that creates real loyalty and authentic evangelism. Preserving this narrative shouldn’t be an afterthought; it should be a company’s first priority.

    Some companies succeed at this, some don’t. And some, like Ford Motor Company, have managed to do both.

    When Henry Ford developed the assembly line, he ushered in the era in which middle-class Americans, not just the wealthy, could buy an automobile. In an instant, Ford’s narrative and America’s — freedom, ingenuity, self-reliance and optimism — were bound tightly together. And this powerful narrative didn’t die with Henry. In fact, it flourished under a series of leaders who understood the story and kept it alive with successive waves of innovation and improvement.

    But starting in the 1990s, and through much of the 2000s, Ford strayed from its core narrative. The professional managers in charge weren’t students of story. They were students of spreadsheets, and short-term profitability. This resulted in a series of distracting acquisitions, and products that were drab, uninspiring, and poorly made. For those with a desire to dig deeper, this book chapter is particularly illuminating.

    Blame was placed on a number of things: high pension costs, changing tastes, and a weak economy, to name a few. But the last statistic in this article from the early 90s hints at a different story: American car buyers, embarrassed and disgusted at the state of Ford and other American car companies, were turning in droves to imported cars, particularly from Japan — cars built and sold by companies that were acting more American than American car companies. Ford worked to address the quality issues but this takes time, and time was ticking away. As the crisis deepened, Ford began to hemorrhage money, posting astonishing losses by the mid-00’s. Some began to whisper about what had once seemed unthinkable: the end of the road for Ford.

    It wasn’t until 2006 that Bill Ford (Henry’s great grandson) and the board of directors found a leader that understood the Ford narrative and knew how to act Ford-like again. Alan Mullaly, an aviation engineer from Boeing was a guy with the right stuff. He and his team set about building higher quality products (a baseline necessity), and, notably, taking public responsibility for missteps.

    But the breakthrough moment came when Mulally and his team opted not to take any of the auto-bailout money that the U.S. government was offering. This excellent video summarizes the whole story. Ford under Mulally started to feel American again. Suddenly, the company was recognizable again to American consumers. It was like an old friend emerging from a coma. You could feel confidence in the company returning. And the revenue followed.

    Mulally, undoubtedly a talented leader and manager, was the instrument of Ford’s resurgence, for sure, but Ford’s success is really about something deeper — a return to that central narrative that is so inspiring to millions of Americans: “Americans innovate. Americans take responsibility for their actions. Americans don’t take handouts.” It’s not the person that inspires us, it’s the narrative.

    This core narrative is what allows us to apply that meaning to our own lives. It makes us proud (or embarrassed) to drive a Ford. That narrative doesn’t have to be lost when the leader is gone, so long as the narrative is well understood, codified and preserved, and made actionable by people at every level of a company.

    This codification takes focus and discipline. This is not about creating a mission statement by committee and carving it in a wall somewhere. It is about unearthing the authentic narrative that drove the company to its current success, and will also motivate the company’s actions moving forward. And it is about working with people throughout the enterprise to apply the story to their area of specialization: product development, HR, sales, and, yes, marketing.

    Companies that anticipate the need for a successor to a charismatic founder or leader should take the time to do this work in advance. Take the time to understand the narrative that the leader is living — what they really symbolize. Codify the narrative and share it with prospective candidates. Work with them to explore ways that the company can act upon the narrative in the future. Build a map of iconic first actions that the incoming leader will undertake that support and extend this narrative. By recruiting a leader who is truly committed to understanding and advancing this core narrative, companies will set themselves up for an easier transition and greater future success than those that do not.

  • Chewing Gum Helps You Sustain Vigilance in a Long Task

    At the beginning of a 30-minute computer-based vigilance task, the average reaction time of participants who were chewing gum was about 70 milliseconds slower than that of non-chewers, but by the end, it was about 100 milliseconds faster, suggesting that chewing gum can stem a decline of vigilance over a long task, says a team led by Kate Morgan of Cardiff University in the UK. Gum chewing has been shown to increase blood flow to the frontal-temporal region of the brain.

  • Advertising’s Big Data Dilemma

    The proposed merger of ad industry giants Omnicom and Publicis, forming the world’s largest advertising firm, promises to change the face of Madison Avenue forever.

    So long, Don Draper. Hello, Hal 9000.

    It’s understandable why two giants of traditional advertising would pursue such a consolidation — to better do battle against Google and Facebook, relative newcomers to the ad game but already upending the entire business dynamic by using Big Data analytics to create highly targeted ads.

    But an algorithm can never truly master the art of persuasion.

    Traditionally, the heart of any successful advertising agency has always been its creative department. During the heyday of Madison Avenue, in the late 1950s and into the 1960s, a wave of young art directors and writers used wit, energy, and style to usher in the era referred to as the Creative Revolution.

    Consider one of the classic examples from the period: in 1955, a minor brand of cigarette aimed at women smokers tapped the Leo Burnett agency to revamp its brand. Burnett and his team might well have turned to the data available at the time on female smokers. Instead, they recognized an opportunity to tell a new story, one that tapped into the cultural zeitgeist, a sense of confusion and loss about American masculinity. The advertising campaign featured a rugged cowboy on horseback, an uncompromised man struggling not with a demoralizing bureaucracy but with the forces of the natural world. He smoked a cigarette “designed for men that women like.” The Marlboro Man was born.

    This is the art of persuasion. Great marketing and advertising campaigns are exquisitely attuned, not to past behavior, nor to individualized needs and desires, but to the larger cultural zeitgeist. Great advertising speaks to our deepest fears and desires, it answers to our nascent yearnings. Perhaps most importantly, it acknowledges that the majority of our decisions are social: we do things within the context of our communities and we get swept away by the mood of our times. From Volkswagen’s “Think Small” print ads to Apple’s groundbreaking “1984” television commercial — directed by Oscar-award winner Ridley Scott — to Nike’s “Just Do It” slogan, persuasive advertising campaigns have left an indelible mark on our public imagination.

    Big Data analytics simply can’t address us with this kind of depth, the full context of our lived reality. Take a recent example with Boston potholes. An app called Street Bump was designed to collect smartphone data from the city’s drivers. The idea was to collect information about pothole repair at a low cost. Unfortunately, the app had difficulty distinguishing between bumps in the road, manholes, and potholes, and, as a result, the Office of New Urban Mechanics received an overwhelming amount of false positives. Even more problematic, by relying only on feedback from the app, Boston was not receiving any information from neighborhoods where the residents didn’t own smartphones. This skewed the objectivity of the data received.

    This kind of “skewing” is always happening with data. Despite what we are told, data is never objective, never free of bias. Kate Crawford, researcher at Microsoft, calls this problem “Big Data fundamentalism — the idea that with larger data sets, we get closer to objective truth.” Aggregator sites, seemingly objective, are designed with built-in assumptions. They assume that the frequency of your clicks is the same as your level of interest or the degree to which the material “moves” you. But only our fellow humans will ever really understand what we care about. Our care — our deeply felt investment in the world — is always context dependent.

    What is the role of Big Data in the future of advertising? Data analytics plays a part in informing a successful marketing strategy. According to the chief executive of one of the industry’s major data marketing companies, advertisers can determine, in milliseconds, whether someone looking for a car is a “luxury” or “used car” buyer, and based on that information, they can determine whether to even display an ad or not. If your problem frame is simple and straightforward — “I want to reach a consumer who buys luxury cars in order to entice them to buy my luxury car — these types of targeted ads could do very well for you.

    But what if your problem frame is not straightforward? What if, like Marlboro or Nike, you are trying to illicit a new emotional response from your consumers? What if, like Volkswagen, you feel that your product could thrive in an entirely different kind of market? What if, like Apple, you are trying to lead, not follow the decisions of your consumers?

    To address a more complex problem frame, you need a more complex piece of technology. In these situations, an algorithmic business model based on Big Data analytics — if this, then that — is not going to provide you with the greater insight or perspective. It certainly isn’t going to create a strategy or a campaign. For any of the above, you are going to need the human mind.

  • UCLA prostate cancer research program receives $11.6 million federal grant

    UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the department of urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have been notified that their standing as a National Cancer Institute Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) site in prostate cancer has been renewed for another five years. 
     
    The UCLA program is under the leadership of principal investigator Dr. Robert Reiter, Bing Professor of Urologic Research and a member of the Jonsson Cancer Center. 
     
    This renewal marks the beginning of a third five-year cycle of funding that will support UCLA scientists’ efforts to improve the prevention, detection and treatment of prostate cancer. Thirty-thousand American men are expected to die from the disease this year, and the NCI estimates that more than 238,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2013.
     
    The SPORE program is a central component of NCI’s efforts to spur collaborative, interdisciplinary cancer research at academic centers throughout the U.S., with the goal of translating basic research from the laboratories into patient care more quickly and effectively. The five-year, $11.6 million grant will help UCLA expand its renowned prostate cancer program, which engages researchers and clinicians from many disciplines across campus to uncover the mysteries of the disease.
     
    “The SPORE grant will robustly continue the outstanding programs we have developed over the last two cycles of the grant and give us the resources to bring investigators together for new innovative and multidisciplinary projects with the goal of improving the way we diagnose and treat prostate cancer,” said Dr. Mark Litwin, professor and chair of UCLA’s department of urology.
     
    “This renewal of the UCLA prostate SPORE is indicative of the world-class research we have on this campus,” said Dr. James Economou, UCLA vice chancellor for research and professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics; molecular and medical pharmacology; and surgical oncology.
     
    “The renewal of this SPORE grant is affirmation of the leadership role UCLA continues to play in groundbreaking research on prostate cancer,” said Dr. Eugene Washington, vice chancellor for health sciences and dean of the Geffen School of Medicine.
     
    “Over the past 10 years, the UCLA prostate SPORE has had some great successes,” Reiter said. “Among them have been the development of the drug enzalutamide by Dr. Charles Sawyers and Dr. Michael Jung, the identification of prostate stem cells by Dr. Owen Witte and colleagues, and the discovery and development of antibodies against the prostate stem-cell antigen gene, which have all gone from discovery through to clinical trials. Other highlights include Dr. Hong Wu’s work on the PTEN tumor suppressor gene, demonstrating that the gene negatively regulates prostate cancer stem cell self-renewal, proliferation and survival, and the work of Dr. Bill Aronson and colleagues demonstrating that dietary changes can affect the growth rate of prostate tumors.”
     
    According to the NCI, SPORE grants are designed to promote collaboration among the best scientific minds. The grants bring together researchers who might not otherwise have a chance to work together. The UCLA prostate SPORE is the only one in California and one of a handful in the U.S.
     
    The specific aims of the renewed grant are:
    • Conducting translational research to investigate what makes prostate cancer spread and become castration resistant, meaning that it does not respond to hormone therapy. 
    • Targeting cancer stem cells and signaling pathways.
    • Evaluating the effects and mechanisms of dietary change in preventing prostate cancer. 
    • Providing organizational infrastructure and novel technologies to support SPORE objectives. 
    • Developing new research areas and supporting the careers of new researchers.
    The SPORE grant will primarily fund four projects at UCLA:
    • Dr. Robert Reiter and Dr. Anna Wu will focus on translating N-cadherin-targeted antibody therapy into the clinic. N-cadherin, a protein expressed widely across prostate cancers, is required for castration-resistant prostate cancer to emerge and survive, and it therefore is considered a credentialed target treatment for prostate cancer by the NCI. 
    • Dr. Hong Wu and Dr. Matthew Rettig will work to advance the management of castration-resistant prostate cancer by blocking the P13K and MAPK signaling pathways. An overarching hypothesis of this project is that prostate cancer can be classified according to alterations in signaling pathways — the mechanisms that underlie the formation of tumors. Individual tumors need to be classified according to which pathways are involved and must be treated with combination treatments that prevent an alternate pathway from being activated when one is blocked. 
    • Dr. Owen Witte, Dr. Matthew Rettig and Dr. Andrew Goldstein will be focusing on prostate cancer stem cells, which are thought to be resistant to castration and most conventional therapies. Their overall rational is that optimal cancer therapy requires targeting the bulk of differentiated or adult cancer cells as well as the cancer stem cells. This project will focus on targeting a gene called Trop-2, which is present on normal and malignant prostate stem cells. This is a novel approach to prostate cancer treatment.
    • Dr. Bill Aronson and Dr. Pinchas Cohen will focus on the molecular effects of diet and how diet can help prevent and manage early prostate cancer. A previous study led by Aaronson and Cohen found that a low-fat diet supplemented with fish oil could slow the growth of prostate tumors.
    Jonsson Cancer Center director Dr. Judith Gasson, a professor of medicine and senior associate dean for research, said that UCLA’s prostate cancer program is a shining example of the campus’s excellence in interdisciplinary research. 
     
    “We’ll be able to move forward more quickly now to develop new and better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat prostate cancer with the goal of saving tens of thousands of lives every year,” she said.
     
    UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has more than 240 researchers and clinicians engaged in disease research, prevention, detection, control, treatment and education. One of the nation’s largest comprehensive cancer centers, the Jonsson center is dedicated to promoting research and translating basic science into leading-edge clinical studies. In July 2013, the Jonsson Cancer Center was named among the top 12 cancer centers nationwide by U.S. News & World Report, a ranking it has held for 14 consecutive years.
     
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  • Responding When Your Expertise Is Challenged







    Deepa Purushothaman, principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP, explains why it’s important to understand how you’re perceived. 

  • Move Beyond Enterprise IT to an API Strategy

    For the vast majority of organizations, the IT function’s focus has been inside the enterprise. They might allow some occasional website browsing by employees (though many sites are banned), and perhaps an inbound website or intranet for customers to enter an order. The focus, however, has been on protecting a walled garden of information transactions.

    We think the emphasis should instead be external. Toward this end, we increasingly see sophisticated organizations competing in an “API economy” in which application programming interfaces are the primary approach to inter-organizational collaboration and information exchange. APIs, which are specifications or protocols for how to exchange information or request online services from an organization, are already booming in online businesses. As more companies realize that information is key to their product and service offerings, and that they need an ecosystem to provide those offerings, APIs will grow further in popularity. Many of today’s ecosystem members are coders and app developers, and APIs are how they interface with a provider organization.

    Netflix provides a great example of the role of APIs in a successful information-oriented business. Correlation is not causation, but there seems to be a close correlation between the growth of Netflix’s stock price and the rise in the number of API calls it gets. The latter figure is close to 50 billion per month now (from about 2 billion three years ago), which is a powerful indicator of how open the company has become. Netflix makes movie and TV content available through a variety of devices, from iPhones to PlayStations to many “smart” TVs. The company also makes available other information content to many sites, including its catalog, recommendations, and ratings. All of this content makes its way to sites and devices outside of Netflix through the magic of APIs.

    Other companies with strong API-based ecosystems include Salesforce.com, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and eBay. All have seen fantastic growth. They all needed API-based ecosystems because consumer demands are hard to predict and they use a wide range of devices. Opening up APIs lets organizations outsource innovation by allowing third-parties to experiment with their information assets and share revenue streams. They can also control usage when necessary by limiting access to partners they choose.

    However, there are other sectors that have not yet opened themselves up to ecosystems with APIs. Health care IT, for example, is a largely closed industry; health records systems like EPIC and GE Healthcare IT are protected environments, largely closed to external ecosystems. One exception to this pattern is athenahealth, a Boston-based software-as-a-service health records system company that is trying to engender a health information ecosystem. Called “More Disruption Please,” the movement has elicited a few development partners, but CEO Jonathan Bush would like to see more. RunKeeper, a tracker of fitness activities, has had somewhat greater success in building an ecosystem, but it’s more about fitness data than health information.

    Of course, an API strategy is not a binary decision — to use them or not to use them. There are public (open to everyone) and private (open only to certified developers or partners) APIs. There are free APIs (Google’s, for the most part, although they charge under certain circumstances) and flat fee or revenue-sharing ones (Apple’s, for the most part). There are information and services that you want to give your ecosystem access to, and those that you probably should keep to yourself. In short, your organization needs to debate the various elements of an API strategy, and then you need a set of governance mechanisms to enforce it.

    So if your enterprise IT is only focused on the internal enterprise, you’re already falling behind in the API economy. You need to start building an ecosystem, and APIs are the way to do it.

  • 25 songs to celebrate innovators: A Spotify playlist inspired by TEDWomen

    The Ahn Trio plays during TEDWomen 2010. Photo: James Duncan Davidson

    The Ahn Trio plays during TEDWomen 2010. Photo: James Duncan Davidson

    Inspired by the theme of TEDWomen 2013, “Invented Here,” we’ve created a killer playlist with songs about women who’ve innovated, made a difference, taken a stand and changed history in the process.

    Our mixtape of tunes include: a Swedish dance-pop tribute to Marie Curie’s research on radioactivity, Jane Birkin’s ode to the work and ideals of Burmese political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, an emotional love song dedicated to Georgia O’Keefe and a tongue-in-cheek punk rock commentary on Margaret Thatcher.

    Sit back, turn up the volume and have a listen!

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    Unable to listen to the Spotify playlist? Here is a list of all of the songs we’ve included:

    Clara Barton – Country Joe McDonald
    Abigail Adams – The City and Horses
    When Frida Kahlo Lost Her Halo – Greg Douglass
    The Ballad of Marie Curie – Army Of Lovers
    Florence Nightingale’s House – Katie Malco
    Nelly Bly – Dirty Bourbon River Show
    Ada Lovelace – Madam Monom
    Sojourner Truth – Jeanne Humphries
    Amelia Earhart vs. the Dancing Bear – The Handsome Family
    Cleopatra – Miniature Tigers
    Mother Theresa Can’t Dive – Jose Vanders
    Georgia O’Keefe – Duke Special
    Benazir Bhutto’s Hands Are Clean – Muslimgauze
    Aung San Suu Kyi – Jane Birkin
    Susan B. Anthony Dollar – Sherman & Larsen
    The Ballad of Isadora Duncan – Mike Elliott
    Hypatia – Tomi Leppanen
    I’m In Love With Margaret Thatcher – NotSensibles
    Maria Montessori – With An Orange
    A Freestyle Kiss To Hedy Lamarr – Botanica
    Madeleine Albright – Dave Lowensohn
    Harriet Tubman’s Ballad – Woody Guthrie
    Joan Of Arc – Leonard Cohen
    Speeches Of Indira Gandhi – Indira Gandhi
    Jane Goodall – Adam Kautz
    Virginia Woolf – Indigo Girls
    Annie Get Your Gun – Squeeze

    Hailey Reissman, on the TEDx editorial team, contributed to this playlist.

  • TEDWomen 2013: Invented Here. Registration now open.

    Invented-Here-mainThe old saying goes: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Folded into this truism is a nugget of wisdom: that women so often are the ones driving innovation, the creative powerhouses surfacing new concepts, and the active force crystalizing change in communities near and far. This is the spirit that TEDWomen 2013 will celebrate with its theme: Invented Here.

    TEDWomen 2013 will be held in San Francisco, December 4-6, 2013, at the new SFJAZZ Center. Registration for the event opens today. Head to the TEDWomen site to find out how to apply »

    But even if you can’t travel, you can be a part of the TEDWomen experience. On December 5, more than 150 TEDx events around the world will share the TEDWomen livestream and present local speakers with their own takes on invention and re-invention, making the day about the global experience of women.

    TEDWomen has become a powerful test kitchen for ideas. Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In began on the TEDWomen stage on 2010. In 2011, Jane Fonda spoke on how women can and should have a “third act.” And last year, Angela Patton — recently featured on ABC News — shared her incredible story of throwing a father-daughter dance in prison.

    Join us this December as we celebrate the incredible work of women and celebrate the inventors, designers, chefs, thinkers, makers, leaders, local problem-solvers and general dreamers of every gender who dare to imagine more.

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  • One More Breaking Bad Trailer To Tide You Over Until Sunday

    Five more days. That’s not so bad, is it? I mean, what’s a 120-plus more hours when you’ve been waiting almost a year? Good thing AMC understands how these waits can hurt, and so, they’ve been releasing balms and salves to tide you over, and even though the wait is almost over, AMC has once again delivered another dose of preview material. Granted, the “Say My Name” trailer is designed to encourage the hunger, as well as temporarily satisfy your cravings, so proceed with caution. Your desire to see the new Breaking Bad may just overwhelm you if you binge:


    I’m curious to see if the premiere of Breaking Bad’s final chapter gets close to Sharknado in the tweets per minute category. Considering the show’s not currently being aired, and yet it is still a popular topic of conversation, as in at the time of this writing, it’s quite possible the return of Breaking Bad could be one of those television events that spawns follow-up articles discussing its overwhelming Twitter impact.

    If you don’t know by now, you’re probably not interested, but the final episodes of Breaking Bad begin on Sunday at 9 PM Eastern.

  • Bowler’s Perfect Game Snatched Away By Lane Malfunction

    A perfect 300 in bowling may be one of the hardest feats in sports. I’m lucky to get one strike every five games, and professional bowlers maybe get two strikes per game. One bowler managed to come incredibly close to a perfect game over the weekend, but victory was taken from him at the last moment.

    CBS Houston reports that Troy Walker, a competitor in the 2013 Luci Bonneau Doubles tournament, was on a roll with 11 consecutive strikes in his game. During the last frame, he lined up the perfect shot and let the ball loose. It was here that the pent up anger of the bowling gods must have been let loose as the rack came down right before the ball hit the pins. This obviously stopped the ball from completing its holy mission, and Walker was denied his perfect game.

    Fortunately, the tournament judges let him try again, but it was too late. Walker’s luck had run out and his last shot only knocked down seven pins. He ended up with an incredible score of 297, but that freak accident most likely cost him a perfect game.

    So, what did Walker have to say about his perfect game being snatched away by a rogue rack? He said that he may have robbed himself of a perfect game by resetting the wrong lane before he took to the floor for his final frame. That reset may have sent the rack crashing down on his lane.

    Regardless of whose fault it was, he says the story will at least give him “something to talk about.”

    Check out the video below to relive what must have a painful experience for all in attendance:

  • Riley Cooper Returns To Team, Practices

    After taking some time away from his team following his oft-documented adventures in racism at that fateful Kenny Chesney concert, Riley Cooper has officially rejoined the Philadelphia Eagles, which obviously includes him rejoining the teammates he offended with his drunken behavior. While some may be expecting some public backlash against the Eagles receiver, it appears as if another avenue is being traveled: genuine forgiveness.

    The news of Cooper’s return to the Eagles came courtesy of Chris Mortensen’s Twitter:

    As for the forgiving attitude towards Cooper, it is perhaps best captured by Peter King’s Monday Morning Quarterback column, which contains the following quote from Mike Vick, a player who knows a thing or two about public forgiveness:

    “Just because he made that one mistake doesn’t mean he can’t overcome it,” Vick said. “Or he can’t be condemned for it. Everybody deserves a second chance … Just for one second, expand your mind. Expand your mind and have supernatural thinking about it. Everything doesn’t have to be negative. Everything can be fixed. So many people forgave me. And it took time. It’s still taking time.”

    There was also an interesting point offered by ex-Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin, and while that may be somewhat unexpected, it doesn’t make his statements any less compelling, especially when he discusses the morass surrounding the infamous word itself:


    It was, however, Adam Scheffter who encapsulated the entire NFL offseason by tweeting about one simple picture he posted on his Instagram account:

    Tebow, Cooper, Hernandez

    For those who aren’t sure, that’s Tim Tebow, Riley Cooper, and Aaron Hernandez when they played for the Florida Gators. I’m sure Urban Meyer would look at that particular picture with the same kind of pride a father has for his daughter’s first recital.

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