This past weekend the North Carolina Tar Heels, South Carolina Gamecocks, Oregon Ducks and Gonzaga Bulldogs all punched their ticket to the 2017 NCAA Men’s Final Four. The question now becomes how do you succeed in the most high-pressure, high-stakes environment possible? A look at past winners gives us a clue. 2013 champion Louisville Cardinals […]
Fox Sports’ Joe Klatt once made an interesting observation. He said and I’m paraphrasing, “We are wasting Nick Saban on coaching. He needs to be doing something like running for president.” What Joe was saying is Nick’s philosophy of leadership, organizational capabilities, personnel development, commitment to excellence, and legendary “Process” are at historic levels and […]
Like many of you I always take a book(s) with me while on vacation. Because I lead some very talented young people at INJOY Stewardship Solutions, I was excited to jump into John Calipari’s Success Is The Only Option: The Art Of Coaching Extreme Talent last week. As head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats basketball team, […]
Enlisting, equipping and then releasing young leaders to be all God created them to be is critical to becoming a sustainable church or organization. You must always be green and growing as a staff. But the temptations which face young leaders has an intensity unlike anything we have seen before. The Opposite Sex, Money, Drugs, […]
One non-negotiable skill all leaders must possess is the ability to help those they influence get better. You must be able to take people from “here” to “there”. And this requires improving their skill. You may have missed it this past week but major league baseball had its opening day. Unlike pro football and pro […]
Learning the lessons from this post may save your job. On Friday, January 22nd David Blatt was fired as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. This came as a shocking move because the Cavs were in the NBA Finals last season and Blatt had a winning record of 83-40. I mean, the goal of a […]
Recently I wrote a post on the importance of coaching entitled No Matter How Good You Are, Every Leader Needs This. The post hit a nerve and I received a tremendous amount of positive feedback. As a result I want to write a follow-up post. The following are 15 Qualities Of Great Personal And Corporate […]
