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Something I have been passionate about for some time now is empowering the 2nd string...or checking your bench. Your 1st string players will really (for the most part) take care of themselves--they have risen to the occasion and are on a strong path and a positive trajectory. But what about the second string... who …
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Wish I knew what you were looking for. Might have known what you would find. - Church, Under The Milky Way by J. William DeMarco Can't recall where I came across the phrase, "Heads Down/Pencils Up Leadership," but I believe it was in a podcast… probably Andy Traub. This is something I have continually gone …
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Personality has a lot to do with how we understand Niccolo Machiavelli. We have talked about how misunderstood the man may have been here on the blog many times. Recently I picked up a somewhat newer translation of The Prince with an introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon and reading through Butler-Bowdon's intro it only confirms my …
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What are you doing to grow as a leader? That is a question I ask myself close to every day... sometimes I have great answers, other times I have terrible or fake answers...and the truth is, at times, my growth has paused or in some cases actually atrophied....but it is a journey, and I …
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With Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) we find ourselves in interesting times—one might even say unprecedented; but I work with academics, and this was mentioned on a text the other day to which the response was, "These are actually precedented times." What does that even mean? Unprecedented: never done or known before. Precedented: Provided with or having …
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