Lesson #23 - Figure out who you are
It wouldn’t matter if it was football or whatever; the essence of being as good as you can be is to figure out who you are.
Lesson #22 - Begin Again
A key lesson I learned the hard way is that no matter how good your culture and strategy seem at any time, all solutions are temporary.
Lesson #21 - Letting the tide go out
What I do know is this. Leadership, if you’re prepared to embrace all its expectations, will pick you up somewhere and leave you somewhere else.
Lesson #20 - Growers and arrivers
I have learned that discomfort marks the place where the old way meets the new way. It is a place of vulnerability and courage.
Lesson #19 - Constraints make the art possible
To draw the energy or inspiration from somewhere to bring something into existence that was not there before.
Lesson #01 (Reprise) - Ron Barassi: “If it is to be, it is up to me”
Over the past thirty years, whenever I saw Ron, he smiled that broad grin under his now grey moustache, put out his hand and said, “It’s Cam-aulenko”.
Lesson #18 - The strongest steel
Richmond achieved something generations of highly equipped groups of players, coaches, and administrators had failed to accomplish, not because they weren’t good enough, but because it is fucking hard.
Lesson #17 - Can you coach effort?
Mechanics and dynamics, the science and art of leadership, to create the conditions of high performance.
Lesson #16 - The Leadership Promise
It is impossible to have a conversation about leadership without talking about power.