I've been a coach since 2007.

I've been creating content about coaching since 2011.

Over the years, I've created a lot of different things, so I thought it might be helpful to pull them all together into one place.

I hope you find some of these useful: I've written three books.

Where Others Won't is about how intelligent
teams leverage their people to create a competitive advantage.

The Tough Stuff chronicles the emotional toll of head coaching.

Second Set Of Eyes is my case for head coaches having their own coach.

There's a trend playing out in coaching that we need to be paying attention to.

Good coaches are quitting, preferring to walk away than put themselves and their families through the lifestyle.

Sports should be the bastion of leadership, not the industry leaders are fleeing.

👇 2/ Recently, a @nytimes article included a form to gather stories under the heading "Have You Had It With Coaching?"

The New York Times can spend its time on any topic in the world, but they're investigating the worrying trend of coaches quitting.

This, to me, is telling.

Team balance is one of the nuances of coaching that I'm most fascinated by.

How do you assemble a team that can attack from anywhere, defend cohesively, isn't overcompensating or vulnerable in too many areas, and can win different ways?

Some thoughts 🧵 It's remarkable how many people still think you slap the 5, 11, 15, 18 best players together and it makes the best team.

It's also remarkable how many people think 'upgrading' the player in each individual position makes a better team.

I can tell you it's neither of those.

I believe High-Performance Knowledge Work is the key to conquering coach burnout.

It is the foundational idea that underpins my work with elite head coaches, and I think it is the most significant source of competitive advantage in team sports right now.

A thread 🧵 I introduced the concept in my book, The Tough Stuff.

It is the heightened level of brain training coaches require to be aware, communicative, and decisive in a real-time, public domain, high consequence environment.

It replaces MORE coaching with BETTER coaching.

Team maturity is quite literally the 🗝️ to coaching, but is rarely spoken about when we share ideas.

I define team maturity as a group's ability to comprehend and execute the vision *repeatedly* in all of the different facets of the game.

A thread 🧵... Team maturity has little to do with age profiles or whether they joke around in the locker room.

More and more, 18/19/20 year olds are coming into the professional game with elite capacity.

Eg: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is 22 and was MVP caliber in his first full MLB season.

I've spent the last 2 years researching, writing, and speaking about head coach burnout at the elite levels of sport.

Coaches are running on fumes right now. We are remarkably far from 'high-performance', but I'm unwilling to accept that can't change.

A thread 🧵 When I started writing #TheToughStuff, I was told head coaches would never talk about the emotional toll that the job takes on them.

That's nonsense. We talk about it all the time, and in the public domain. It's just that many don't want to listen.

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