#thankthepasser: @JohnStoszkowski has a timeline full of zingers and #foodforthought.
#thankthepasser: @JohnStoszkowski has a timeline full of zingers and #foodforthought.
Those driven toward excellence and winning, should never view failure as something that saps your energy, enthusiasm and vitality. Instead, it provides an opportunity to respond famously by animating, increasing your focus, and viewing the experience itself as an opportunity to learn, develop and adapt. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying significant failures won’t …
Are you the ‘GUIDE ON THE SIDE’ facilitating the success of your team? Or, the ‘SAGE ON THE STAGE’; all knowing and all wise dictating all things? Emperor Liu Bang, in the third century B.C., became the first ruler to consolidate China into a unified empire. To celebrate his victory, Liu Bang held a great …
Albert Einstein, it has been said, once described his rules of work as follows… Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Three simple rules. Simple yet quite profound in their application. As an athlete, the struggle is often learning to simplify amidst that orderly-chaos that takes …
In looking back at the past week, I was reminded of these excerpts from Phil Jackson‘s book, Sacred Hoops: Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one. To do that successfully, they need to trust each other on …
The first coach… …puts the players first by placing the players in front of him/herself. This coach pushes the players to succeed. The players are the ones in the limelight. The second coach… …puts him/herself in front of the players. S/he then uses the players to boost his/her status in order to place the spotlight …
Build a team, hire staff, recruit players, with extraordinary expectations, to do tasks extraordinarily. This will be rewarded with extraordinary results. Championship performance doesn’t necessarily result in championships. But, surrounding yourself with people who have developed championship-like habits, increases the likelihood that the championships will follow. As a worst case, they’re going to max out …
While attending Coaching U, NBA head coach Doc Rivers was scheduled to speak on the topic of “Offensive Concepts & Strategies.” Interestingly, he spent a good chunk of his time speaking first about character. Here are some bullet pointsthat jumped out to me from this part of his coaching session: “If it’s all about you, your players will …
There are quite a few good things being said about Dan Sullivan & Catherine Nomura’s book: The Laws of Lifetime Growth. Admittedly, I have yet to read it yet. But that’s not going to stop me from sharing a few of the nuggets that I stumbled upon: LAW ONE: Always make your future bigger than …
Fail fast. Fail easy. Fail often. Repeat. Then Learn. —’Learning Junkies’ There’s something profound – to me – in the simplicity of that thought. Perhaps, it struck a cord because I’ve been reading a lot about the subject lately. Allow me to expand on the notion of failure with a few additional thoughts… Failure is …