The Team Leadership Report

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. ― Peter F. Drucker Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference. ― Kirk Mango Nothing is born into this world without labor. There was a time we laughed at the old guys up on the hill. The ones who graduated a couple of years before us, and who would hang around the school and the ballpark still, and would sit on the hoods of their cars and tell us how when they were seniors they did it better, faster, and further. We laughed, because we were still doing it, and all they could do was talk. If our goals were not met, there was next year, but it never occurred to us that one day there would not be a next year, and that the guys sitting on the hoods of their cars at the top of the hill, wishing they could have one more year, willing to settle for one last game, could one day be us. ― Tucker Elliot

Imagine that you had won the following prize in a contest--each morning your bank would deposit $86,400 in your private account for your use. However, this prize has rules The rules are: Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you. You may not transfer money into some other account.  You may only spend it. Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $86,400 for that day. The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say:Game Over!".  It can close the account and you will not receive a new one. What would you personally do? You would buy anything and everything you wanted right? Not only for yourself, but for all the people you love and care for. Even for people you don't know, because you couldn't possibly spend it all on yourself, right? You would try to spend every penny, and use it all, because you knew it would be replenished in the morning, right? Actually , This game

A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer's well. The farmer heard the mule braying, or whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving. Instead, he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened. He enlisted them to help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery. Initially, the old mule was hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling, it suddenly dawned on him that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back he should shake it off and step up! This he did. "Shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up" he repeated to encourage himself. No matter how painful the blows or distressing the situation seemed, the old mule fought panic and just kept right on shaking it o

Three young men were once given three kernels of corn apiece by a wise old sage, who admonished them to go out into the world, and use the corn to bring themselves good fortune. The first young man put his three kernels of corn into a bowl of hot broth and ate them. The second thought, I can do better than that, and he planted his three kernels of corn. Within a few months, he had three stalks of corn. He took the ears of corn from the stalks, boiled them, and had enough corn for three meals. The third man said to himself, I can do better than that! He also planted his three kernels of corn, but when his three stalks of corn produced, he stripped one of the stalks and replanted all of the seeds in it, gave the second stalk of corn to a sweet maiden, and ate the third. His one full stalk's worth of replanted corn kernels gave him 200 stalks of corn! And the kernels of these he continued to replant, setting aside only a bare minimum to eat. He eventually planted a hundred acr

Every year a team wins a championship. Every year a college team wins the NCAA title. Every year the best high school team in Division A on down wins the state crown. All these teams have one thing in common: No matter how tough it became throughout their season, they did one thing — they held the rope! What is “holding the rope?” Imagine that you are hanging from the edge of a cliff with a drop of twenty thousand feet. The only thing between you and an fall to your death is a rope, with the person of your choice on the other end. Who do you know that has the guts to pull you to safety? Who will hold the rope? Who do you know that is going to let that rope burn their hand and not let go? How many people that you know are going to withstand the burning pain and watch the blood drip from their hands for you? If you can name two people, that’s not good enough, because those two people might not be around. The next time your team is together, look around and ask yourself, “Who co

Successful people often fail their way to success. Lance Armstrong won his 5th Tour de France after battling testicular cancer. Elvis Presley became “the King” after being fired from his first performance at the Grand Ole Opry being told he had no talent. Albert Einstein became a world renown scientist after being rejected by the Munich Technical School for showing no promise. Michael Jordan has become one of, if not the best, basketball player of all time after being cut from his high school team. The life of actor Michael J. Fox changed after learning he had multiple sclerosis, but it did not end. Chronic fatigue syndrome kept Laura Hillenbrand bedridden from August 1991 to the summer of 1994, but it didn’t stop her from writing the bestselling racehorse drama Seabiscuit. Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before he succeeded in making the first electric light bulb. Walt Disney got 33 rejections before he found financing for his theme park. Colonel Sanders got turned down 1,0