Can swearing have a positive effect on your team?

How often do you say the words “I don’t know enough to have an opinion?”

"You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers…”

“The Capability Gap is what you’re capable of relative to what you’re doing...if you understand the truth about that, you can actually take information that can help you close that gap.”

“Negative experiences without teaching kill morale.”

Paul Azinger shares his thoughts on his leadership approach in pulling together a Ryder Cup team with The Athletic.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

There are 3 aspects of an elite culture that increase commitment and engagement.

Do you consider your team a family?

I’ve never liked the comparison. First of all, I think being a part of a team is special. Using the word family implies that in certain areas - how we care for each other, the commitment we make to each other - teams come up short, and I’m not buying that. Being a part of an athletic team is unlike any other “team” or “family” environment.

Steve Kerr’s four core values:

1. Competitiveness

2. Mindfulness

3. Passion

4. Joy

“If you keep doing things that make people feel good, you’re not going to be doing this job very long.”

You know how that story ended—bottom of the ninth, Game 4 of the ALCS. Roberts steals second, scores the tying run, and we complete the greatest comeback in baseball history. That trade happened because Theo had created an environment where everyone’s input was valued.

To engage deeply with work, Dan Pink explains that we need three key elements that are examples of intrinsic motivation.

“They teach them how to think.”

Spend the 15 minutes to listen to Michael Lewis’ speech to Princeton graduates from 2012. Terrific.