Sunday, February 18, 2024

Basketball: Nestle Has a 4 x 4 x 4 Roadmap, Find Our 3 x 3 x 3

Don't rediscover the wheel. Borrow from other organizations. 

The Nestle Company has a brief document outlining its success roadmap. Can we find ours? Always be specific. 

  • Competitive advantages
  • Growth drivers
  • Operational pillars
Competitive advantages. 
    Excellent teams have superior organization. Dr. Fergus Connolly arrays performance along skill, strategy, physicality, and psychology. Some coaches rely on "talent aggregation" to prosper. Lacking that luxury, invest time to improve all these dimensions. There's no "one size fits all" and over time every coach's methods evolve. 

    Excellent teams have strong coaching and consistent leadership. Weak programs meander with broken rudders. Strong sport and business franchises don't constantly change product, leadership, and financing. 

    Excellent teams have a stable, self-reinforcing culture. "Heat Culture" emphasizes physical and mental toughness. UNC Women's soccer thrives because, "Excellence is our only agenda." 

Supercharge it: Record examples of leadership and culture building. 

Growth drivers.
    "Every day is player development day." Seek 1% daily improvement. 
    Become your own coach. Learn to know and train what is needed.
    Develop your software and hardware (mind and body). 

Supercharge it: "Be a tracker." Write down and monitor your development plan. 

Operational pillars.
    Live great habits. In the spirit of James Clear's Atomic Habits, make them obvious, easy, attractive, rewarding. 
    Commit to making everyone around you better as a player and person as a leader and role model. 
    Find ways to impact winning. Become a 'possession ender' getting scores (points, assists) or stops (rebounds, steals, charges taken).  

Supercharge it: Journal your progress. Have a daily plan of a specific accomplishment. Include memorable daily work. Record items of gratitude. 

Lagniappe. Build the machine.     

Lagniappe 2. Great offense is multiple actions. 

 Lagniappe 3. "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Everyone's Mother

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