Curiosity Opens Up So Much of YOU Curiosity expands your focus to exploration. It integrates you into the greater existence of the world, rather than convince you that the world exists because of you. Exceptional leaders have a profound curiosity about most everything that hooks their attention....
Who are YOU? Self-knowledge: an individual’s understanding of the character, behaviors, principles, values, motivations, emotions, beliefs, biases, virtues, flaws, limitations and capabilities that define and socially represent who you are. Imagine standing in the center of a great circular hall, completely surrounded by 360 doors, one door for...
What do you know about Leadership? A quarterback orchestrates a drive down field with less than two minutes to go in the fourth quarter, to set up the game-winning field goal. A chief of staff coordinates her medical team during a school shooting, as multiple victims...
Are You Ready? Leadership: the ability to influence, direct and enable others to combine their efforts to achieve. Leader: the person who acts with understanding of this definition. Think about light. To see it is to know exactly what it is. But look at it through a prism and...
Each year, before the start of the WNBA season and at the conclusion of the NBA season, I get hyped about watching two events, the draft for each league. I’m always inspired by and elated to see the annual showcase of young aspirants, often still...
Kobe Bryant saw two things as most important for maximizing player development: empathy and compassion. Basketball has changed a lot since its inception. Analytics and load management were not introduced by Dr. Naismith. Seven-foot centers are now expected to shoot three-pointers. Positionless basketball is the new...
What coaches need to know that Kobe Bryant understood. Poem by Michael Tyler, Sow the Seeds: A Composition in Verse I recently had a long dinner conversation with two NBA players. They had been referred to me because they were struggling with the same challenge: the psychological deflation and...
Steps to create a more equitable workplace. President Biden indicated that he plans to support Vice President Harris for a presidential bid in 2024. This signal represents a dramatic step forward from the patriarchal retreat Biden made when the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas...
This is Part III in an NBA culture series. Read Parts I and II. The NBA Bubble proved to be a well conceived, carefully organized and meticulously executed model for pandemic control. The NBA presented a how-to model that other sports and organizations now seek to...
Our bipartisan group of experts in economics, public health, technology, and ethics from across the country, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, has released Pandemic Resilience: Getting it Done, a supplement to the Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience. The report offers different TTSI program recommendations for locales that have low prevalence...