Corporate Locker Room

Trust is so important to success in any field or endeavor. Just like anything else, trust can be lost from time to time. When things don’t go as planned, when things take a turn for the worse, when everything that used to work doesn’t, trust can dissipate. The key becomes…how do you get it back? [...]

We played the NJ Nets the other night and I spent some time with Del Harris before the game. Talk about a coach who has had a successful career! He’s been to NBA play-offs 27 times, was NBA Coach of the Year in 1995, took Houston to the NBA Finals in 1981, andhas been coaching [...]

Just read something that really got me thinking about how some people seem to have opportunities and others do not. The article was about achievement and overcoming obstacles that always seem to be in our way. In the article, Les Brown, a motivational speaker, made the point that we should not be waiting for opportunities [...]

We all want to get better at what we do. I just finished putting on a very informative coaching clinic here in Las Vegas where we presented so much basketball information it caused one young coach to tell me that he “had not even taken that many notes in college!” My point is not to [...]

I got an e-mail from the mother of a young friend of mine who lives out in Northern California. His name is Garrett. I met Garrett through a friend in Phoenix who was putting together a program to help Garrett out. You see, Garrett faces a very difficult battle every day of his life. My [...]

We all have signs in our locker rooms that send an everyday message to our teams. I like to say that we want to make our locker room “talk.” But I want to make sure that when the locker room talks, it’s not just the players’ voices talking. Signs are a good way to get [...]

Most of us would agree that we are constantly on a quest to improve. We are trying to make things better in our jobs, our health, our families, and our futures. But what I have seen so often in coaches and other accomplished and driven professionals is that they are so busy trying to get [...]

Jay Bilas (ESPN College Basketball) made a statement to the players we were working with at one of our summer workouts. That statement has stuck with me, and I use it often with our players to this day. He told the guys, “Don’t just try to get through the workout; try to get from the [...]

If you are a Head Coach or CEO there’s no real need for you to read this post. This post is all about the assistant and one of the most important roles he or she must fulfill. Being a former Head Coach I know what it’s like to be in that seat. I also know [...]

In the sports world, the corporate world, in our personal lives, in a coach’s career — there will always be times when we have to choose between the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. The Pain of Discipline Being disciplined is a great characteristic to have, but a difficult one to maintain over [...]

A good friend of mine — an excellent high school coach –asked me this summer, “What are the five most important characteristics someone needs to be a success in this business?” Needless to say, that sent my mind in motion as I am always curious as to what makes people successful in their fields. In [...]