A Coach's Diary

I was watching The Shop, a show produced and put together by Lebron James and his team of people that airs on HBO when they started talking about the importance of combining talent with work-ethic to reach the next level of success. I am always looking for different forms of motivation for myself and my daughters, and The Shop had about a 5-minute conversation on how important it is to combine work ethic and talent. Here are a few quotes that I took from the show: LeBron James:   Everyone is blessed with the ability to do something.   Once you find what you are talented at, you have to have that DRIVE to want to be great and the DRIVE to go through it.   Yes, you might have the talent and a vision, but once you have the vision, there is going to be something,  OBSTACLES, that are going to be placed in front of you.  We all go through adversity.  But the successful people have a will that won’t let them stop. Bill Hader (Saturday Night Li...

LeBron James, Draymond Green, 2 Chainz and special guests come together at a local New Orleans barbershop to talk the NBA, Olympics, music, football and more.    They hit on many topics, including what its like to play in a classic game 7, playing for Coach K in the Olympics, ‘the process,’ LeBron’s decision to come back to Cleveland, and guys in the NBA who don’t know their roles and DON'T KNOW HOW TO PLAY!  

There are a lot of guys who have no idea what their roles are.   They have no idea where to shoot.   There are guys who DON’T KNOW HOW TO PLAY. LeBron James, Draymond Green, 2 Chainz and special guests come together at a local New Orleans barbershop to talk the NBA, Olympics, music, football and more.    You can see the entire video here: At about the 9:25 mark, Record producer Steve Stoute starts out talking about business resumes and the fact that for all of the skills that are on resumes, they never talk about a person’s work ethic.   He says that everybody gets credit for stuff that you didn’t do when you are part of a team because that is part of being on a team.   But he likes to ask, 'What role did you play in driving the outcome vs. being a teammate of the outcome?"    Great coaches, great CEOs, and great managers have to decide:  Is it the guy or is the environment that the guy was in?   Are you the driver or just a...