“A cluttered mind equals slow feet.” - Stan Van Gundy

Loyalty can undermine a decision critical to the health of the enterprise. When leaders factor in loyalty to people in their decision-making, they are often seduced to think differently about what is best for the team or organization. They justify a bad or poor decision by elevating the loyalty they have for a particular person affected by that choice. 

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

How do you teach your players to be better leaders? If leadership is important to the success of your team, you need to do more than complain about it. You better recruit it or teach it - or both.

Think about what leadership means to you, what your organization needs, and then determine who has the skill and approach to provide the right leadership. It may not be the best player or highest performer. There is a leadership void because we don’t put the right people in leadership positions.

Trust comes from the way you compete every day, not the other way around. You don’t compete for one another because you trust each other. You trust each other because of the way you compete for one another.

As it turns out, an ethic of extreme accountability may be the most formidable weapon a leader can have.

Natural leaders use a combination of life experiences and core values to create their leadership “instincts.”

“If I didn’t ask questions, I wouldn’t be where I am right now.”

Figure out what you are good at, and do that a lot. That is your role.

Great leaders are curious about their teammates. That is the first step in making their teammates better.

Leadership as a coach is not just solving problems, but teaching people how to solve problems

A very cool 5-minute trip on the headsets as Notre Dame comes back to beat Duke.

On a losing team it’s bad body language. On a winning team it’s being a great competitor.

Dan Le Betard and Dominique Foxworthy discussing the way coaches scream at athletes.