START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH ”Why the good ones leave you.” Finding good team members is hard, finding the few great ones even harder. Keeping the good ones is what separates great leaders from all the rest. Keeping the great ones is rare, even for the best of...

START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH "If you want to win--get the right people on your team.” Stop looking for the ”best” and most talented people, look for the right people. It's a waste of time to talk vision, leadership and strategy with people who are a not a good fit...

START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH "Carrots, do they help or hinder?" Great leaders know shaping an inspirational and motivational workplace is the only way to sustain superior performance and achieve above average results. This is best accomplished through self-motivated...

START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH ”Are you determined to win, or just satisfied to compete?" At Disney, leadership is not defined by your title or position, it's defined by your actions. Every leader proactively works to align their personal values and daily work ethic...

START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH “It’s my way or the highway, the cause of most workplace tension" Balancing tension is high on the agenda of every great leader. Every organization has tension. Left alone it quickly dissipates productive energy and sinks team morale...

START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH “Do you need to change lures on your vision-casting rod?” Seasoned fishermen know you rarely catch a fish on the first cast or every cast. However, they never seem to tire of casting their lure until they hear those exciting words, “fish...

START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH “Five keys to understanding the emotional side of leadership" Leaders who think they can ignore the emotional component in leadership are either naive, inexperienced, or willfully incompetent. As a leader, never forget that you are...

START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH "Vision, is it received, developed or discovered?" Father Theodore Hesburgh, former president of Notre Dame University said, "Vision is the essence of leadership." Vision means knowing where you want to go and how to get there. It...

START YOUR WEEK WITH THE COACH "Who do you trust?" When I grew up in the 50s there was a TV program known as "To Tell The Truth." It featured four celebrities attempting to correctly identify a described contestant with an unusual occupation. This central character is...

”Tiny things many times create big problems.” On December 29, 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401, bound from New York to Miami, crashed into the Florida Everglades because of a twelve dollar light bulb. As the plane approached Miami the indicator light for the...