1269 Leadership Quotes
Jimmy Johnson is generally recognized as one of the top talent evaluators in the history of sports. The Hall of Fame coach attracted enough talent to win two national championships for the University of Miami Hurricanes in the 1980s. He then went to draft the right talent and win two Super Bowls with the Dallas […]
PLAYERS: What will you do today to make your teammates and your team better? pic.twitter.com/Bq6asBQKFx — Jamy Bechler (@CoachBechler) October 22, 2019 Coach Jamy Bechler is one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter. When I saw the above tweet he recently posted, I knew I wanted to share the content with you. This […]
Teamwork makes the dream work. You can accomplish more with we than me. There’s no “I” in team. We win together, we lose together. It’s all about the team. Let’s be honest, we have all heard these teambuilding axioms. They are part of every successful leader’s verbiage and thinking. The question becomes how do you […]
The following are 10 Things Great Teams Do Average Teams Do Not: Great Teams Have An Ethos Which Permeates The Entire Organization – When asked about the Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Jim Mora said, “If you go to Alabama and you walk into the equipment room and the assistant equipment manager is folding a towel and […]
Bruce Feldman’s book Meat Market is generally considered the greatest book ever written on the subject of college football recruiting. When reading it, I was fascinated by then Ole Miss Rebels Head Coach Ed Orgeron’s evaluation of defensive lineman. This is important because Orgeron, now head coach at LSU, was considered one of the best defensive line […]
“We are essentially trying to fly a boat with no engine.” These are the words of America’s Cup Oracle Team USA skipper Jimmy Spithill. He would know. The licensed pilot captains a vessel which can reach speeds in excess of 60 mph. In the May 25th edition of USA Today, Spithill discussed just some of […]
John Maxwell is famous for saying, “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” Organizations rise and fall on leadership. Teams rise and fall on leadership. Most importantly, churches rise and fall on leadership. And the sobering truth is not every leader can build a great organization, team or church. For lessons on how to do so, I […]
Every experienced leader understands the importance of building a great team and the value it brings. However, team building is very difficult and a skill only the best leaders truly master. Once such leader is the owner of MAG Bookkeeping and EA Help, Bryan Miles. What fascinates me about Bryan is how he builds teams […]
What type of people do you want on your team? Allow me to provide you the list of the type of teammates I am looking for. You want people who can handle adversity. They handle failure and conflict productively. You want people who can overcome their limitations offering a very special skill instead. You want […]
I once had a worship pastor tell me, “Brian, if you can get two or three good musicians, it gets easy from there. Musicians are attracted to musicians.” And so it is with leaders. Leaders are attracted to leaders. I was reminded of this truth when I read a recent USA Today article on how […]
Great leaders are desperately needed. They are in particularly high demand in situations which are less than desirable. In these organizations momentum needs to be reversed. Personnel needs to be upgraded or improved. Hard decisions must be made. The type of leaders needed in bad organizations are hard to find. One of the NFL’s most […]
