Chad Pennington, Giovanni Carmazzi, Chris Redman, Tee Martin, Mark Bulger and Spergon Wynn. These were the six quarterbacks drafted ahead of Tom Brady in the 2000 NFL Draft. It is often difficult to know how to look for talent. Let’s not congratulate the New England Patriots. They didn’t know how good Brady was either as they waited until the […]
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My Top 20 NFL Storylines And Predictions
Brian Dodd on July 27, 2010 in Great Teams
A collective smile has come across the faces of sports fans everywhere as the NFL training camps are beginning. The Dallas Cowboys were the first to open and their ongoing soap opera debuted a new actor named Dez Bryant.  The fun has began. The following are my top 20 storylines and predictions for the upcoming year.  No great leadership principles here. Just sheer fun. New York Jets - Rex Ryan’s bunch have the […]
Leadership Skills of College Football Coaches
Brian Dodd on July 16, 2010 in Great Teams, Sports Leadership
For sheer volume of information, nothing beats The Sporting News. In the 2011 NFL Draft scouting section of the most recent edition, there were several leadership traits attributed to some well-known college coaches.  The following coaches were identified in alphabetical order: Randy Edsall, Connecticut – Great support staff around him. Kirk Ferentz, Iowa – Develops people […]
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 […]
Best Practices Of Leadership From Top NFL Leaders Part 1
Brian Dodd on July 6, 2010 in Great Teams, NFL Draft, Performance, Sports Leadership
This past Father’s Day, I received as a gift Sports Illustrated Peter King’s book Monday Morning Quarterback. Like many NFL fans, Peter is my favorite football writer and his weekly online column by the same name is my must read of each week. It had a few too many personal chapters for my taste though they are extraordinarily written.  My two favorite chapters […]
10 Positive Mid-Year Thoughts
Brian Dodd on June 26, 2010 in Character, Church Leadership, Great Teams, NFL Draft, Performance, Relationships, Sports Leadership
Everywhere you look or listen, there is plenty of bad news to go around. However, with this being the final weekend of the first half of 2010, I thought it would be a good idea to look back on some of the positive things I’ve noticed or experienced so far this year. Father’s Day – My wife and […]
Most Popular Posts of May 2010
Brian Dodd on June 20, 2010 in Character, Church Leadership, Generosity, Great Teams, Most Read, NFL Draft, Performance, Relationships, Sports Leadership
I want to thank everyone who took the time to read the posts I have been submitting the last month. New strategies have been implemented and we have had good response. Once again, thank you and feel free to join in on the leadership conversations. The following were my 5 most read posts during the month of May. In […]
How Bad Teams Become Great – Part 2
Brian Dodd on June 14, 2010 in Great Teams, NFL Draft, Performance, Sports Leadership
In part 1 of this series, we looked at three NFL (www.nfl.com) teams who had an exceptional season sandwiched between two disappointing ones. The objective of these posts is to identify the success links that these teams had in common needed to produce that great season and are necessary for our organizations to have a much-needed performance spike. Six links […]
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 […]
Adding Leaders: Insights from the 2010 Kansas City Chiefs Draft
Brian Dodd on May 10, 2010 in NFL Draft, Performance, Sports Leadership
On Monday, April 26th in Peter King’s great column Monday Morning QB (http://rss.cnn.com/rss/si_peter_king.rss) he noted that five of the seven Kansas City Chief 2010 draft picks were captains of the college teams. They were: Eric Berry of the Tennessee Volunteers who was also the best defensive player in the draft not named Suh. Dexter McCluster […]
The Greatest Enemy of Future Success is Past Success
Brian Dodd on May 1, 2010 in NFL Draft, Performance
In the 2009 NFL Draft, the following are the top 5 USC selections:Mark Sanchez – New York Jets, Round 1, No. 5 overallBrian Cushing -Houston Texans, Round 1, No. 15 overallClay Matthews – Green Bay Packers, Round 1, No. 26 overallRey Maualuga – Cincinnati Bengals, Round 2, No. 38 overallFili Moala – Indianapolis Colts, Round […]