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October, 2019 - In this issue
Club Decision-Making
What Are your Options?


In the world of private clubs, especially member-owned clubs, decision-making is a complicated process.  Often run by member-elected boards of directors, there are usually enough opinions on each and every issue to fill a political debate stage.  Accordingly, there are those of us who provide consulting services to clubs to interject objective thinking into the process and help clubs make the right decisions for their future planning.  While those of us who practice as independent consultants can never know your club like the members, we do approach the challenge with no emotion and a breadth of experience and knowledge gained from experience at numerous clubs.
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Modernizing Golf
Make it "Cool"
A few weeks ago, I spent some time with an old college friend and a young business development professional from one of the biggest golf and club management firms.

My college buddy is a successful businessman, good player, has qualified for USGA events and played on the Division 1 intercollegiate golf team.  As one might expect, we got to talking about the state of the game and among other things, focused on the rules changes and whether they’ve achieved their purpose of modernizing and streamlining golf.

When the rules changes were announced, it seemed like a good thing to reduce the number of rules from 34 to 22.  However, it seems as though some didn’t achieve their goals:

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Golf, Clubs & Leadership


This morning, while I was exercising, recently retired Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis was interviewed on TV promoting his new book on leadership, Call Sign Chaos, Learning to Lead.  What an interesting guy and straight shooter!  Whatever one’s politics, it’s abundantly clear that General Mattis understands leadership, has great leadership skills and knows how and when to implement them.  I’m intrigued to read the book.

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