Why explore, study, and share basketball and leadership? It helps give back to the game and people who changed me.
Simon Sinek informed this in his talks and book, "Start with WHY."
It's a multistep process involving:
- Discover the WHY
- Communicate the WHY
- Get the right people to execute the WHY
This intersects Dan Pink's concepts of "Drive." Pink believes that drive evolves from autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Autonomy gives us a measure of control, mastery a target, and purpose the motivation to go on.
Everyone's WHY differs. That's not 'right' or 'wrong'. It just is. Mine?
- Sharing. Blogging is a vehicle since on-court coaching is done.
- Experience. Help expand the basketball experience.
- Competition. Publish the best insights of others and sometimes mine.
Shape the HOW. How extends philosophy.
- Teamwork makes all of us better, literally the nature of our species.
- Improvement allows us to become our better version.
- Accountability helps us to inhabit the truth.
Deliver the WHAT.
- Cultivate relationships. "No man is an island."
- Teach the game, which is unlimited and evolving.
- Access and present the many available tools for learning.
Readers vote with their eyeballs. When it works, readers become better players or coaches, better critics, better creatives. Disagreement and dissent are good, too. Finding the better way builds a better experience for you and your players. That's a win every day.
Lagniappe. Not another guy named "Smith."
— Coach the Coaches (@WinningCoaches) May 31, 2026
