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Throughout my years as an athletic director, people would often say to me, "You need to hire so-and-so. S/He was a great player at—," and they would say the name of some college or high school. I would smile, nod, and say something like, "Okay, thanks. I'll keep...

I have mentioned Jim Rohn's great quote, "Leaders are readers," a few times before. I have always liked that quote, and I have always agreed with it. Unfortunately, too many "leaders" don't follow the point that he is making. I believe that many coaches would fall...

Today's post focuses on a conversation in my new book, Trouble in Discovery: Remington Rises Up. It is about a situation in the story where the head coach has a rule, but he chooses not to follow it in a key moment of a game because he doesn't want to lose a very good...

Yesterday, I posted a Tweet and then a Facebook post about the concept of teaching/coaching being either "a job, a career, or a calling" based on ideas in Angela Duckworth's book Grit: The Power of Passion & Perseverance. Today, I want to expand some on the...

Earlier this summer, I told you that I would occasionally re-post some popular posts from my earlier Coach with Character and Great Resources for Coaches sites. Today is one of those posts. I chose this one because on this past Monday's episode of the Great Quotes for...

Trouble in Discovery: Remington Rises Up was released today! You can order it over on Amazon right now. Normally, I would tell you to just go to the Shop page here on my site. However, the more people purchase it on Amazon early on, the more it climbs in rankings, and...