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

Sports, man. What a game. And yes — coaching matters. Leadership matters. Previously, I wrote that “if you want to win championships, you need to build a championship culture — on purpose.” The 2025–26 Indiana Hoosiers just demonstrated that lesson with a clarity that should force every athletic director, business leader, and sports fan to recalibrate their thinking about what winning really takes. They didn’t just get better players. They didn’t just get richer boosters. The

Spend any time on a practice field and in a motor pool, and you’ll notice similarities in language. We rally around the mission, refuse to let our teammates down, preach next man up, and dig deep when it’s the fourth quarter. We leave it all on the field and trust the process. The vocabulary overlaps so naturally that it almost goes unnoticed. But the real connection isn’t linguistic—it’s foundational. The language is the echo. The roots run much deeper.