1269 Leadership Quotes
Coach Prime Jackson State University head football coach Deion Sanders, known as Coach Prime, has changed the culture of this Historic Black College’s football program. So much so that ESPN’s College Gameday was hosted on the Jackson, MS campus today. One of Coach Prime’s strengths is his superlative motivational and communication skills which you can […]
A New Coach In 1977, Tom Moore was named wide receivers coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. This was a potentially intimidating assignment for a new coach with his first professional assignment. After all, the Steelers wide receivers were talented, two-time Super Bowl champions and featured future Hall of Famers Lynn Swann and John Stallworth. Both […]
“Make dust or eat dust.” – Unknown. “If you’re not first, you’re last.” – Ricky Bobby Jeff Martin is the great lead pastor of Redeemer Community Church in Johnson City TN. Today he and I were talking and he relayed to me the following story from when he was a youth pastor in San […]
You may or may not know the name Bill Campbell. If not, he is one of the most influential leaders in American history. Campbell was a personal coach for iconic leaders like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerburg and Sheryl Sandberg. His life and career were recently profiled in the incredible book Trillion […]
Bad players- don’t take much seriously Average players- take games seriously Good players- take practice and games seriously Great players – take academics, nutrition, film, warm ups, individual work, weightroom, practice, and games seriously — Coach Donald Littlejohn (@MC_Coach_LJ) December 7, 2018 Coach Donald Littlejohn of Mallard Creek High School in Charlotte, NC is becoming […]
No matter whether you lead a church, business, athletic organization, educational institution, or non-profit, everyone wants to have high-performing organization and team. But are there things high-performing organizations do which low-performing organizations do not? The answer is an emphatic YES! I am currently reading Don Yaeger’s excellent book Great Teams: 16 Things High-Performing Organizations Do Differently. […]
I love the picture shown above and its caption: “You’ll find a way, or you’ll find an excuse!” As I looked at the image I determined 10 Reasons Leaders Have No Patience For This – EXCUSES! Leaders have no patience for excuses because the conditions for success are rarely perfect. Leaders have no patience for excuses […]
This past weekend the North Carolina Tar Heels, South Carolina Gamecocks, Oregon Ducks and Gonzaga Bulldogs all punched their ticket to the 2017 NCAA Men’s Final Four. The question now becomes how do you succeed in the most high-pressure, high-stakes environment possible? A look at past winners gives us a clue. 2013 champion Louisville Cardinals […]
Fox Sports’ Joe Klatt once made an interesting observation. He said and I’m paraphrasing, “We are wasting Nick Saban on coaching. He needs to be doing something like running for president.” What Joe was saying is Nick’s philosophy of leadership, organizational capabilities, personnel development, commitment to excellence, and legendary “Process” are at historic levels and […]
Like many of you I always take a book(s) with me while on vacation. Because I lead some very talented young people at INJOY Stewardship Solutions, I was excited to jump into John Calipari’s Success Is The Only Option: The Art Of Coaching Extreme Talent last week. As head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats basketball team, […]
Enlisting, equipping and then releasing young leaders to be all God created them to be is critical to becoming a sustainable church or organization. You must always be green and growing as a staff. But the temptations which face young leaders has an intensity unlike anything we have seen before. The Opposite Sex, Money, Drugs, […]
One non-negotiable skill all leaders must possess is the ability to help those they influence get better. You must be able to take people from “here” to “there”. And this requires improving their skill. You may have missed it this past week but major league baseball had its opening day. Unlike pro football and pro […]
