John Zito
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Podcast Appearances
to test some of those norms and just be outside the box thinkers.
And not just because something worked in the past necessarily isn't going to work in the future.
And just have fun doing it.
We have our Olympics.
I try to keep things pretty fun.
We do like an Olympics.
We had last year at the end of the Olympics, we had this like kind of standard corporate Olympics.
It was going to be fine.
It was fun.
We go out to Randall's Island.
But to mix it up, I always do something a little different.
I had the team meet us at the fish market at 5 a.m.,
We got three 50 pound grease cods because when I was growing up in Maine, we'd have this annual greased cod race where you had to get in a fireman's outfit and a 50 pound grease cod back and forth.
Didn't tell anyone what the finale was for the finalists, the winners, the finalists, you guys get to race for the winning thing.
And then I pulled out the two, three 50 pound grease cods and it was the relay race for who would win.
But we still are trying to have fun here.
I'd like to think that most of us, you got to have fun coming to work and enjoy doing it.
I wanted to be a...
football coach and I was screaming to not come down to New York.
It all hit the peak when I was coming in through the, I drove down from Amherst down to New York to move into my one bedroom with three guys on 38th and 1st.