Not all non-traditional stats are equal. Which ones are most important to winning? Take a look into a team’s “hustle board” to see what they track.
Not all non-traditional stats are equal. Which ones are most important to winning? Take a look into a team’s “hustle board” to see what they track.
Icebergs have two parts: what people see (above the surface) and what people don’t see (below the surface). Success Is An Iceberg We often get mesmerized by someone’s above the surface success and don’t factor in all the below the surface opportunity-costs they paid to achieve that success. This is the ‘iceberg illusion’. It’s been a …
Oh boy… (Going to get myself in trouble with this one!) I know, I know…. For many of us, the sheer utterance that sport is not a family is sacrilege. Yet, when I listened to Jack Clark (UC Berkeley rugby coach) on Finding Mastery: Conversations with Michael Gervais say it, I sat up straight. And, …
Here’s how you end up with a dysfunctional team culture: Someone points out that one of the team members is negative and a real problem. And the coach says, And here’s how you end up with a toxic environment on your coaching staff: Someone points out that people are afraid to contradict this person. And the …
Read this quote today by Luke Walton (Head Coach, Los Angeles Lakers) on building a winning culture and developing basketball IQ: Let’s Go Deeper… I agree with the basic premise of the quote; yet, I think we can go deeper. Think about replacing freedom with responsibility. As the saying goes, ‘with freedom comes responsibility’. (I don’t think Luke will be …
Five-time CEO Margaret Heffernan, spoke at length on the topic of social capital during her June 2015 TED Talk. The words that hold true for developing a winning culture are: “What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.” Character, as defined by personal discipline and helpfulness, is the the glue that holds your team together. Teams that are made up …
I really had no intention of turning this video of Doc Rivers at Coaching U into a blog post. In fact, my plan was just to put it up on my Facebook page and call it a day. Yet, as I watched it again, I thought: “This is a keeper!” [Disclosure: I don’t know if …
As a fan of the game and even more so as a coach, I believe there are very few acceptable responses after a made basket. Further, to a special player, there’s really only one winning habit after a score: an immediate and automated reaction focused on the next best action. Coach Don Meyer called this …
This is great insight into the impact that Buzz Williams is making on the lives of the young men that come through his program. This video on Marquette Basketball’s “Life Lessons” a testament – in more than one way… Here’s another video (via Coach Starkey’s Hoop Thoughts) of Marquette’s head coach, Buzz Williams, mic’d up …
“Almost all of us waste 90% of our time, resources and learning time, because we don’t understand a simple concept called the Learning Pyramid.” This was a line in an email that popped up in my inbox from Sean D’Souza of Psychotactics. Sean’s message was directed towards marketers, but I think its application holds true …