In one of my favorite books, The Mentor Leader by Tony Dungy, Dungy provides a simple formula for effective coaching and leadership. Dungy states: Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. 1. Engage Engagement […]
I’m your typical John Wooden fan. I try to dissect everything he’s written, and love reading and re-reading his stories. If you read what I write enough, this fact is obvious. I praise and quote John Wooden more than any other coaching legend. However, he’s not just a coaching legend, he’s a proverb machine. “Wannabe” […]
Failure is not part of the process, failure is the process. It’s a fact that before you can succeed you must fail. All people who are in pursuit of difficult goals, especially athletes and entrepreneurs, must acknowledge this. Failure cannot be a bad word. With this in mind, the first step to remove the fear […]