Winning Wednesday

As my friend Cody Royle said in his book The Tough Stuff, being a head coach is simultaneously all about you and not about you at all.

Good leadership is about putting the team first. That means making sure you've taken care of yourself first so that you can better help others.

It means shouldering blame and sharing success while knowing inside that you played an outsized role in the outcome achieved.

It means recognizing that everyone else needs it to be about them to perform and achieve and that your job is the most important job in making that at all possible.

Good leaders recognize that their time, effort, and energy is disproportionately valuable. And they spend a lot of it on helping other people get better.

Good leadership means recognizing the team needs you to push them forward and they also need you to get out of the way.

The team needs you to provide structure but not direct. To help organize but not overwhelm. To lead and make it feel like it's self-directed.

Being a great leader means you know your impact so well that you can minimize how much your leadership is seen and maximize how much it's felt.