To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.
You notice it with any organization that's had a lot of success: you will start to reach thinking, 'That's the player, that's the method, that's the mechanism, that's the coach, that's the thing that's going to put us over the top.'
I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
If you're a coach, you've got to have a lot of confidence in what you're doing. Your egos are so large that you know it all anyway if you're a coach.
I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.
I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.
I think when you have strong leadership at the coaching level and you empower the coach and the coaching staff, you have a lot more stability.
In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.