Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Meets COVID-19, Open Gym
To be quite frank, I swing strongly towards individualism on the individual-collective continuum. The most famous tool for evaluating this spectrum on a national level is with something called Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions. The United States is stereotypically individualistic in its value structure and worldviews. For example, many Central American countries like Panama and Guatemala are examples …
Commitment Over Complaint
RSVPing doesn’t guarantee attendance. Attendance doesn’t guarantee participation. Participation doesn’t guarantee progress – let alone, work performed. You know this. You understand this. Let’s say, for example, you reserve your spot for GPP class via PushPress in advance… Great! Also, mandatory, but we can agree that that reservation isn’t what drives your car/rides your bike/powers …
DEUCE WEIGHTLIFTING: Hitch & Bump
Weightlifting is a pillar of strength training that deserves a tremendous amount of attention for its high-skill, technical aspects. Aside from being the only barbell competition included in the Olympics, it is continually done in one form or another in gyms across the world. Simply, weightlifting is here to stay. In my years coaching the …
The Call That Never Comes
Everything I am about to say is incredibly obvious. Despite being remarkably obvious, the impact of what I’m about to say is rooted in that fact that this information is rarely considered. As a result, many of you reading this sentence are misinterpreting an important part of reality. So, here goes it. You don’t receive …
‘My Company Story’ Features DEUCE Gym
It was a pleasure to be welcomed into the rarified air of the My Company Story family of featured companies. The host, Don Burdge, is the chairman at the peer advisory board, Vistage. I was able to sit with him for a potent, even surgical, conversation about what makes DEUCE Gym tick. The conversation is …
