Coach Prime Jackson State University head football coach Deion Sanders, known as Coach Prime, has changed the culture of this Historic Black College’s football program. So much so that ESPN’s College Gameday was hosted on the Jackson, MS campus today. One of Coach Prime’s strengths is his superlative motivational and communication skills which you can […]
A New Coach In 1977, Tom Moore was named wide receivers coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. This was a potentially intimidating assignment for a new coach with his first professional assignment. After all, the Steelers wide receivers were talented, two-time Super Bowl champions and featured future Hall of Famers Lynn Swann and John Stallworth. Both […]
“Make dust or eat dust.” – Unknown. “If you’re not first, you’re last.” – Ricky Bobby Jeff Martin is the great lead pastor of Redeemer Community Church in Johnson City TN. Today he and I were talking and he relayed to me the following story from when he was a youth pastor in San […]
You may or may not know the name Bill Campbell. If not, he is one of the most influential leaders in American history. Campbell was a personal coach for iconic leaders like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerburg and Sheryl Sandberg. His life and career were recently profiled in the incredible book Trillion […]
Bad players- don’t take much seriously Average players- take games seriously Good players- take practice and games seriously Great players – take academics, nutrition, film, warm ups, individual work, weightroom, practice, and games seriously — Coach Donald Littlejohn (@MC_Coach_LJ) December 7, 2018 Coach Donald Littlejohn of Mallard Creek High School in Charlotte, NC is becoming […]
No matter whether you lead a church, business, athletic organization, educational institution, or non-profit, everyone wants to have high-performing organization and team. But are there things high-performing organizations do which low-performing organizations do not? The answer is an emphatic YES! I am currently reading Don Yaeger’s excellent book Great Teams: 16 Things High-Performing Organizations Do Differently. […]
I love the picture shown above and its caption: “You’ll find a way, or you’ll find an excuse!” As I looked at the image I determined 10 Reasons Leaders Have No Patience For This – EXCUSES! Leaders have no patience for excuses because the conditions for success are rarely perfect. Leaders have no patience for excuses […]
