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People don’t always understand just how much effort from how many people goes into one person chasing a dream to be great.
Kobe Bryant • The Mamba Mentality
one night, while I was leading a break up the floor, I noticed Bob Cousy over my shoulder, running behind me. I told myself something was wrong, the picture was out of whack, the signature style was missing. Bob Cousy, to this day, is the best I’ve ever seen in the NBA at running a fast break. What I was inadvertently doing was taking him out of
... See moreDavid Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
Other Princeton players aren’t always quite expecting Bradley’s passes when they arrive, for Bradley is usually thinking a little bit ahead of everyone else on the floor.
John McPhee • A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: A Qualitative Phenomenon, Madame Butterfly, Focusing on the Wrong Things, Training Differently, Seeing Beyond the Numbers, and the Secret of Everyone Who Has Ever Excelled
If Michael Jordan, perhaps the greatest and most driven athlete on the planet, needed a Who, not a How—first in Pippen and later in Grover and Jackson—to achieve and exceed his goals, then do you think the same could be said for you and me? What would happen for us if we, gleaning this precious insight, would shift our mind-set from “how” to “who”?
... See moreDan Sullivan • Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork
People buy products that say something about themselves. Paying twice the price for Bulletproof Coffee versus the competitors says that the person is a high performer.