Lost and Found: Insight from Kendrick Perkins
(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) As many of you are aware, I’ve been working on my next book, The WE Gear. It is about the art of being a good teammate and shifting your focus from me to we. During the course of my research for the book, Kendrick Perkins’ name keeps coming...
Coach I’s Impact
File this under the heading Why we teach. I got a message a few days ago from a former classmate, letting me know his father was going to be celebrating a milestone birthday this week. His father, Tom Iagulli, was a beloved teacher and coach at our school. Everyone...
Don’t Let ’em Quit
If you have read my book Building Good Teammates, you are aware of my love/hate relationship with youth sports. In many, many, many ways they are the home to everything that is pure and wholesome about the sports world. They are where aspiring athletes learn the...
7 Things Teammates Can Share Other than Their Possessions
The willingness to share is a trademark of a good teammate because it suggests unselfishness. Teams have a chance to be successful when they are unselfish. Yet the act of sharing is often counterintuitive. Giving up what we already possess doesn’t instinctively make...
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