Purpose

What the Brendan Sorsby saga reveals about the decision you have to make before you ever see it coming Every once in a while, a story moves through the sports world that is really a leadership story wearing a jersey. The Brendan Sorsby saga is one of those. Strip away the quarterback, the conference politics, and the lawyers, and you are left with the single tension that defines leadership in any arena: the gap between doing what is right and doing what is attractive. That te

Development as a Marathon, Piece 5: Boston Marathon, April 2015 This could sound, for a paragraph or two, like another Stop and Smell the Roses leadership story. It isn’t, quite. Most lessons focus on enjoying the work. Mine is about something harder: how the discipline that drives us to start can also blind us to the significance of the start line itself. I almost missed the Boston Marathon while I was running it. That’s what this week is about. How I got to the start line L

Development as a Marathon Piece 4: Dallas White Rock Marathon, December 2010 There is something you want to pursue. A goal, a project, a hard decision, a change in your program. And there are reasons you haven’t started yet, and the reasons are real. The year is full. The season is in progress. The conditions are not right. I want to tell you about the year I qualified for the Boston Marathon, and why it’s the closest thing I have to evidence that the conditions will never be

The sporting world watched with interest over the past six weeks as Lane Kiffin, former head football coach at Ole Miss, went through a very public game of “The (football) Bachelor”.