A Team In A Deep, Deep Hole This past Monday evening, the Kansas Jayhawks trailed the North Carolina Tar Heels by 15 points, 40-to-25 at halftime of the NCAA men’s college basketball championship game. Jayhawks’ head coach Bill Self could have addressed the team’s poor first-half performance a number of ways: He could have kicked […]
A Night-Time Grocery Clerk In 1994, a man in his early 20’s was stocking shelves during the night-shift at a local Hy-Vee grocery store in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Even though is compensation was only $5.50 per hour, he had incredibly high-standards and was committed to excellence. His goal was to have the best-looking aisle in […]
Today I finished Jim Gray’s new book Talking To GOATs: The Moments You Remembered the Stories You Never Heard. This book is a compilation of Gray’s leadership lessons from interviewing some of the greatest athletes, politicians, and actors in history. Utilizing the individuals profiled by Gray, the following are 27 Leadership Lessons We Learn From […]
In the talent economy we currently exist in, you must have 10X leaders on your team. Your customers demand it. Your parishioners demand it. The market demands it. Interestingly, even those on your team demand it or they will seek opportunities elsewhere. So what are 10X Leaders? In their excellent new book Game Changer: How […]
Damian Lillard is currently performing at a historic performance. In the past two games, he has scored 51 and then 61 points in back-to-back Portland Trail Blazers wins. After the 51-point explosion against the Philadelphia 76ers, USA Today’s Mark Medina wrote an insightful article on the story-behind-the-story of Lillard’s performance. What Medina discovered gives all […]
In my book Timeless: 10 Enduring Practices Of Apex Leaders I unpack the skills the greatest leaders and organizations have done and will always do. What is an apex leader? Apex Leaders are those whose leadership practices, principles, and thought processes make them the best at what they do. Today I want to take a […]
John Legend is well, a legend. The following are just a small list of the singer, songwriter, actor and producer’s many accomplishments: 10-time Grammy Award winner Academy Award winner Tony Award winner Emmy Award winner In a July 2nd article in the USA Today, he was asked what advice he would give someone wanting to follow in his […]
