Good leaders have your back. OK. But good leaders need to have your “front”. But what does that mean? Teach – Lead – Guide – Pattern – Protect. Good leaders keep the noise away from their team, shield them from tough situations until they’re ready, show them how to stand on their own. Don’t just …
At work and in life, be sure to recognize your leaders and be their champion. You can define leadership in many ways but, simply, you know it when you see it. In my opinion, leaders aren’t made, they’re born…it’s innate. Leaders lead because that’s who they are. I’ve always tried to spot young leaders and help them …
Don’t be the person who crushes a dream. In 2005, I helped coach my son’s little league baseball team to the championship. At the end of the season, a father said to me that his son wanted to quit baseball after the prior year; the coach didn’t give his son a chance, played favorites, wasn’t …
If you don’t think your staff is watching, listening and learning from you, think again. My 9-year-old daughter…in 2005…stitched and decorated this pillow from an old pair of my jeans that were torn and no longer of use to me…or so I thought. At the time, the Bud Light “Leon” Commercials were trending. …
Emulate the right behaviors. Pattern the right behaviors. As a kid, I was all about baseball…live it, breathed it. Always pitching against the front steps, always throwing myself pop-ups, spending hours playing Wiffle Ball on the streets of NE Philly, always looking for neighborhood kids to hit the local fields for pickup games. From my …
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Your team is built with people with perspectives and backgrounds? That’s the jawn! A few weeks ago while working in Florida, someone mocked my Philly roots by using the word “jawn”, a distinctly Philly word. There was a young man nearby who said “I can’t believe you know jawn. I thought I was the only …
I found this hat while de-cluttering the home. It was last worn in 2009, my final year as head coach for a team I had coached for years. In 2009, the boys were 15 with interests shifting towards jobs, cars and girls. It was time to retire as a coach and I was OK with …
I lost a bet to my daughter and needed to pay up, but I offered just a little bit more. She wouldn’t let me pay. What I do for one I have to do for all, so I asked my son if he needed a few bucks. He also said no. I was raised to be …
I have WeatherTech® mats in all of my cars. Love them. They can just be hosed clean for the most part without much effort needed, but I was cleaning my mats a few weeks ago and it bothered me that I couldn’t get some of the water channels perfectly clean, so I broke out the …
Your children will leave, your employees will leave. It’s inevitable. Do your best to make leaving happen. This is a pic of my son’s vacant room, taking 3 days ago…childhood pics and memories still on the wall. My son moved across the state to his new life, his new home in Centre Hall, PA. After 27 years, …