Choosing Value over Volume
Choose Value over Volume. Don’t fall into the trap of being the loudest voice.
3 Leadership Lessons from Indiana Jones
Last night I found myself wondering what leadership qualities we could draw from Indiana Jones
Gratitude, Perspective, and One Very Determined Cat
Gratitude has been on my mind lately, I guess, judging by my newsletter.
This week I was thinking about it in the context of perspective, with the help of our 3-legged cat and 14-year-old dog.
Stay Grateful
As mentor leaders, we have an especially important role to play in encouraging and lifting up our teams, even when things are going well. In fact, regularly voicing appreciation for effort, progress and excellence is one of the most valuable things we can do in that role.
5 Strategies for Leading Through Change
As mentor leaders, we have an especially important role to play in encouraging and lifting up our teams, even when things are going well. In fact, regularly voicing appreciation for effort, progress and excellence is one of the most valuable things we can do in that role.
Authentic Leadership
…But the reality is that growing as a leader—developing new habits, adopting best practices, building emotional intelligence—is not the same as trying to copy someone else’s personality or leadership style.
Do Not Draft: Character
…character is a quality that can be measured just like height, weight, and speed.
4 Ways to Build Resilience Through Gratitude
As mentor leaders, we have an especially important role to play in encouraging and lifting up our teams, even when things are going well. In fact, regularly voicing appreciation for effort, progress and excellence is one of the most valuable things we can do in that role.
A Single Point
As team members, it’s critical to the team’s performance that we excel in our given role, even if it isn’t the largest or most glamorous role.
The Menus Actually Mattered
As mentor leaders, we have an especially important role to play in encouraging and lifting up our teams, even when things are going well. In fact, regularly voicing appreciation for effort, progress and excellence is one of the most valuable things we can do in that role.
The Power of Encouragement
As mentor leaders, we have an especially important role to play in encouraging and lifting up our teams, even when things are going well. In fact, regularly voicing appreciation for effort, progress and excellence is one of the most valuable things we can do in that role.
Sharing With the Competition
One of my favorite events every year is Larry Shyatt's basketball coaches' clinic. He started it at the University of Florida when he was on Billy Donovan's staff and has continued it every year since...even though he moved on to other jobs, and now retirement from...
Agreeing to Disagree – For Over 30 Years!
Last month I headed to Lexington, KY, for the most recent version of my ongoing fantasy baseball league's draft. Our 32nd. We've also held it in the Lexington in Massachusetts, along with San Diego, Tampa, Palm Beach, Boston, DC, Vermont, Tennessee, Utah, Arizona and...
A Growth Mindset
When I graduated from Duke University in 1991, I wasn't in a particular hurry to get back. To paraphrase Sal Maricano of ESPN, "Happiness was Durham in my rear-view mirror." I'd gone up there to play baseball and football, but ended up playing only a single season of...
You Never Fully “Arrive”
Last week I wrote about not transferring blame (via Colorado Mesa baseball). As leaders, as we — and those we lead — truly own our mistakes, it's important that we also learn from them, and then move on. Learn from the past; don't live in it. That mindset is...
Don’t Transfer Blame – Instilling Accountability in Teams
I learned a new lesson in accountability while in Orlando to keynote an international conference for the Turfgrass Producers International, thanks to two days with the Colorado Mesa Mavericks baseball team, ranked in the top 10 of Division II college baseball.Before...
Striving For Excellence, Celebrating Wins
What does it mean to strive for excellence, and does it follow that we'll always be dissatisfied? And can we still be grateful? In 1999, when I was still with the Jacksonville Jaguars, we went 14-2 but lost in the AFC Championship game to the Tennessee Titans...for...
New Year, New Process?
When I was in school at Harvard, I took a class from the late, brilliant Stephen Jay Gould, a paleontologist and big baseball fan (the latter is what helped me understand any of his examples). He spoke and wrote often of our preoccupation with otherwise meaningless...
Mentoring, the US Army, and Me
I've been able to speak in some really neat settings, including to professional and college sports teams, on university campuses, in foreign countries...even at the Iowa Speedway. Last month may have been the most unique of them all, as I was invited to Joint Base...
Patience – The Steeler Way
Be patient. Mean Joe Greene was drafted in 1969 by the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the team actually fell from 2 wins to only 1! The next year they drafted Terry Bradshaw and won 5. In 1972 Greene was tired of the slow progress and QUIT after the fourth game (the...
2 Takeaways from the Final Four
I had the privilege to speak to the Florida Atlantic basketball team a couple of years ago. They were gracious and attentive, and I enjoyed sharing with them on building teams and culture, simply trying to reinforce what they were already hearing from their...
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