The game etches indelible lessons. Michael Useem's "The Leadership Moment" asks critical questions:
1. What went well?
2. What went poorly?
3. What can we do better?
4. What are the enduring lessons?
Power through right now. Productive habits change everything. Win the morning to win the day. "There are no unimportant minutes."
Leaders make leaders. "Useem defines leadership as the act of making a difference." Remember your best coaches. They inspired, taught, and encouraged. They didn't belittle, deceive, or demean. If we're not living a positive agenda, why not?
Develop the vision of champions. Have a vision of what the game should look like. Teach our players to acquire the same images, the clarity between good and bad basketball. Find ways to contribute when part of your game is 'off'.
Set the bar high. Accountability means holding to high standards. Outcomes intersect both skill and luck; remember Pasteur's advice, "chance favors the prepared mind."
Become the person that you want to become. We choose how to work on ourselves - our attitude, focus, effort, and response to success and to adversity. We choose our response in every situation. Adversity is our companion not our enemy.
Lagniappe: from Phil Ivey, MasterClass
"The most important thing in poker is awareness, to be constantly aware of yourself and your surroundings."
"You don't want to make decisions based on emotion...making decisions off emotion can be disastrous."
"What is in your control...make your decisions off of logic...the hands you play...doing your best...staying present...putting your best foot forward."
"It's how you play when you're losing that shows the mark of a champion."
