Does everything seem to be going wrong at your church or business? Are the key indicators of your success continually going down? Does everything feel like a struggle? Does it feel like if you didn’t have bad luck you’d have no luck at all? If you have been in leadership any length of time, […]
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Friday Night’s Football Leadership Lessons
Brian Dodd on August 13, 2010 in Great Teams, Performance, Sports Leadership
Like many of you, I have been doing a lot of reading on football the last two weeks. The following are some of the interesting leadership lessons I have gleaned that I want to share with you. Thanks to the USA Today for the quotes. 1. From the Boise St. Broncos we learn…Continuity – Athletic Director […]
My Morning At The Atlanta Falcons Training Camp
Brian Dodd on August 3, 2010 in Sports Leadership
This past weekend my family traveled to Flowery Branch, GA to witness the morning workout of the Atlanta Falcons. My wife put up a valiant effort to stay engaged but my daughter did not even try to fight her boredom. From a leadership perspective however, there were several takeaways for me. Those In The Stands Pay. […]
Leadership Lessons From Monday Morning Quarterback Part 2
Brian Dodd on July 7, 2010 in Character, Great Teams, Increasing Capacity, NFL Draft, Performance, Relationships, Sports Leadership
Yesterday I posted the first six leadership lessons from the final chapter of Peter King’s great book Monday Morning Quarterback. As promised, the following is Part 2 which contains six additional leadership lessons I gleaned from that chapter. There are Perks to Leadership and There is a Price to Leadership – “I’m 26 years old, I just […]
How Bad Teams Become Great – Part 1
Brian Dodd on June 13, 2010 in Great Teams, NFL Draft, Performance, Sports Leadership
In November 2009 I wrote two posts on Why Good Teams Go Bad (http://briandoddonleadership.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/why-good-teams-go-bad-part-1/) which was a study of NFL (www.nfl.com) teams that were 13-3 or better one year and experienced a losing record the next. What was interesting was that three of those teams had losing records prior to the one great year. In other words – a bad season, then a great […]