In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss; they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.

Visualize a wagon wheel as a complete team. A leader might be the hub of the wheel at the center. Now suppose the spokes are the connecting relationships the leader is building with people on the outer rim of the wheel. If the hub is removed, then the entire wheel collapses. In a situation like that, if a team loses the leader, the entire team collapses.

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow

In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved

A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.