I always find time to reflect on life’s most recent events while sitting in my often requested window seat while flying.  On a recent flight back to Atlanta from a business trip our flight path took us over a well-lit baseball stadium.  As the stadium vanished on the horizon, I began to conjure up analogies related to baseball and business.

Baseball, as most of you know, is a team sport.  Business, especially ours, is also a team sport.  Business has always been built on sports metaphors and analogies.  “Playing hardball,” “knocked one out of the park” and “cover all of the bases” are just a few taken from the world of baseball.

Business today is more team focused than ever before.  In fact, as most of our Radiant employees know, one of our core values is “Teams of Winners.”  I am extremely proud of this core value and truly embrace it each and every day. Every company today faces different degrees of adversity and how you deal with that adversity ultimately defines the company you work for as well as you as a person.  The teams that I work with each day gladly accept these challenges, ensuring that our customers are more than satisfied, while maintaining the most positive attitudes.

I have worked for a number of large companies in my career.  By far, Radiant has been the most gratifying.  I am surrounded by “teams of winners” that maintain a relentless “can do” attitude. 

Babe Ruth, one of the first five players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame was once quoted as saying, “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”  

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