When you discuss leadership, networking for success, building a championship culture, and fostering strong citizens, you are talking about becoming a great teammate. For us in college athletics, we know that great teammates win games and build championship teams.

Maybe I’m just a carpenter who sees every problem as a nail and every solution as a hammer. But reflecting on this past week, I can’t help but think that the answer to so many of our challenges, on the court, in our communities, even in our country, is simple: we all need to be better teammates.

This week I shared ideas about:
The difference between a teacher and a coach, and
How the heart drives action more than the brain.

Cool, casual and cute…maturity can be defined by not striving to be those things.  Being genuine.  Some people are cool, some aren’t.  I was blessed figuring that out, for the most part, early.

One of the biggest myths in sports—and in business, classrooms, and communities—is that leaders are the ones who make or break the culture.

Not true.

We’ve built an entire industry around leadership.
📚 Books. 🎙 Workshops. 🎧 Podcasts. 🎤 TED Talks.

But we’ve skipped the one role that matters most on any team:
👉 Teammate.

The best definition of a leader is someone who gets people to follow them. People follow people they trust and who they believe know what they are doing.