New Principle #1, Part 1 – Identity Consistent with our Strengths
First, Your vision for our identity must be consistent with our strengths and desires. The need to stay consistent with our strengths and desires is a point that I will return to time and time again,...
View ArticleNew Principle #1, Part 2 – The Same all the Time
Second, Your vision for our identity must be the same all the time. This second point concerning identity is also something that Coach Harper got right. Indeed, he got it right when they ran the flex...
View ArticleNew Principle #1 – Part 3 – Three Key Offensive Ideas
I will end this point by offering three practical basketball principles for this empowerment. As I mentioned above, I don’t think an offensive mentality demands a specific style of play applied to...
View ArticleBack in Blogging Action
I sit here and wonder how many blog posts I have made with a title similar to this one. If you have ever read this blog, you know I take some hiatuses at times. They usually accompany times of life...
View Article9 – Accept Their Limits and Help Them do the Same
“Follow your dreams….you can be whoever you want to be…if you are committed enough and work hard enough, you can achieve greatness in whatever you wish…you can change the world….you control your own...
View Article“Top Dog” and Playing to Win
That’s the title of my current read. Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. I have loved it so far. That comes as no surprise considering how much I love to...
View Article‘Top Dog’ and The Hierarchy of Teams – Part 1
I finished reading this book last week. What a great read. Nothing terribly surprising per se, but good to read nonetheless. Oftentimes we need good writers to dig deeper into the obvious. Doing so...
View ArticleTop Dog and The Hierarchy of Teams – Part 2
I need to get this book back to the library in a few days, so I will put a few more thoughts together regarding the hierarchy of teams. At one point, Bronson and Merryman write, Having studied teams in...
View ArticleTop Dog and The Hierarchy of Teams – Part 3
On the importance of roles, Bronson and Merryman write, Clarifying who is going to do what – identifying distinct roles – is one of the most proven ways to increase the quality of teamwork. The...
View ArticleTop Dog and The Hierarchy of Teams – Part 4
Bronson and Merryman write, One fallacy about teams is that, to be successful, everyone must be friends. The research says it’s the other way around: team performance drives the quality of...
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