Heat, humidity, baseball All Star game:  yep, it's that time of year.Got a bunch of stuff in the hopper this week, so this intro is a short one. Really appreciate the emails and feedback I got after last week's edition. Even though vacations and weekend outings are keeping everyone busy, good to see the summer vacation version of the newsletter can still be a source of welcome entertainment and insights.  Always looking for more subscribers, so please, by all means, forward this to friends and colleagues if you like it and get them to sign up.  Right now, my preference (for a number of reasons) is that people opt-in themselves versus me signing them up.  And if you have some down time over the coming months and you want to record a Friends of Dave podcast, definitely shoot me an email with some dates and times that work.  It's fun, it's easy, and it can be good for your personal branding.  Trust me -- your story is interesting and people will like hearing it!Hope you have a phenomenal mid-summer weekend.  Some great stuff in this weekend's edition so check it out.  And now that the World Cup is complete and the British Open Championship in golf will be determined tomorrow, I thought I should mention that football training camps start next week.....XOXODave