Tag: Food For Thought

Here’s How To Approah Failure

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 …

The Myth of the Superhero

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 …

Two Types of Coaches

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 …

Extraordinary Requires Extra

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 …

Character Counts

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 …