I had the privilege of travelling with the PGC Basketball directors through the ‘research triangle’ in North Carolina one year. We called it the ‘Tobacco Road Tour‘. And it covered Durham (Duke), Chapel Hill (University of North Carolina), Winston-Salem (Wake Forest) and Raleigh (NC State). Here are some thoughts from our time at the Duke Men’s Basketball …
How do you develop loyalty when it doesn’t exist? How do you transform an organization’s or team’s culture? What things are loyalty killers? These questions are ongoing challenges for all of us who seek to move ourselves, our teams – and others – from good to great. The Godfather, Michael Corleone, built his empire on …
I stumbled across this blog post on the USA Volleyball website by John Kessel, called Appropriate Coaching… “Appropriate coaching is an important part of being a good coach… I will go back a bit in time to when the term coach was used to move VIP’s, who could afford to ride [in a coach], rather …
This would be the equivalent of a quick hitter in basketball. It’s a “deceptively simple 3-min segment video from Dr. Laura Trice as she impresses upon viewers the power of the magic words “Thank You” – to deepen a friendship, to repair a bond, to make sure another person knows what they mean to you.” …
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” —Albert Einstein Think about this quote for a second and ask yourself, does this thought apply to the way you develop an athlete? To borrow a thought from writer/teacher/coach/mentor, Dick DeVenzio, I continually ask athletes, to ask themselves, …
Okay… I’m getting way off track here by writing this post as I’m supposed to be working on my practice plan for a basketball session I’m doing next week. But, in the process I’m hope writing this lends clarity to my thoughts. Recently at a PGC Basketball session I did in Pensacola, Florida, we held …
There’s a big difference, to me, between coaching-speak and athlete-speak. Similarly, between scientific babble and real-talk. All the stuff I wrote on neural pathways is classic science-talk. My apologies. I don’t enjoy writing or speaking like that. Allow me to rephrase. … In Made To Stick, they ask readers to give some thought to the …
I’ve been really struggling with my last post on decision training. Since writing it, I’ve wrestled with my articulation of the ideas and concepts. Thankfully, I received a lot of good feedback – liking, disliking and otherwise – the post. And, I was able to chat with others as I traveled to get their perspective. …
Basketball has evolved. In fact, those who have been around the game over the decades will attest to that. Over the years, we’ve the run-and-gun style of play of the LA Lakers of the 80’s to a slowing down of the game in the 90’s. Regardless of what’s taken place on the offensive end of …
“Normality is merely a matter of consensus; that is, a lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.” —Paolo Coelho There are some things that are simply governed by common sense. For instance, putting buttons on the front of a shirt is a matter of logic. It would be very …