Josh Chambers

World Series 🏆 winning @Cubs manager Joe Maddon (@MaddHalos) only had 3 team rules, and they are a great reminder that strong cultures do not need to be complicated: ⚾ Do Simple Better. Master the fundamentals and execute the ordinary details with UNCOMMON consistency. 🏃 Respect 90. Run out every ground ball the entire 90 feet to first base, and carry that same mentality into everything you do on and off the field. 🔥 If You Think You Look Hot, Wear It. The only dress code that existed with the organization was there is no dress code. Confidence grows when people are free to express who they are and show up authentically. Great cultures let pros be pros by removing unnecessary rules, decisions and constraints so they can think less, play freely and perform at their best. 🪄

❤️ The measure of any leader is how deeply they CARE for the people they lead. @AZATHLETICS AD Desiree Reed-Francois shares a powerful Pat Summitt (@patsummitt) story about building the foundation of anything worth following: Trust first. Care always. 💯

Listening to @49ers Head Coach Kyle Shanahan explain offense is therapeutic 🔥:

Brad Stevens on Luck 🍀 and the importance of not confusing the result with the quality of the process that produced it. Both these things can be true: ✅ A team can play poorly and win.
✅ A team can play well and lose. The scoreboard tells you what happened. But great leadership requires understanding why. 🎲 Stop “resulting.” 
Resulting is the tendency to judge every decision by its outcome. But good decisions can produce bad results, and bad decisions can temporarily produce good ones. Evaluate the things you practiced and put stock in what matters, and how well you did those things. That’s a more sustainable way to lead than being a prisoner of the short term outcomes or whether or not the ball bounced your way that day. 🎯 Measure what you can control. 
You cannot completely control outcomes, but you can control your systems and processes that lead to outcomes: some examples include effort, preparation, response, attention to detail, and willingness to improve. When your standards are tied to controllable behaviors, you can create confidence around those things which multiplies through the work and allows you to be accountable to those things. 🧱 Build resilience for volatile results. 
Progress is rarely a straight line. There will be peaks and valleys when the work is improving but the results have not caught up yet. Resilient leaders do not abandon a sound process because of a brutal loss, or become complacent because of temporary success. Results matter. But the strongest leaders do not allow one result to define the work, distort the truth, or dictate their emotional direction. Stay humble enough to examine the process after a win and gritty enough to trust it after a loss. 🕵️

Joe Maddon’s (@MaddHalos) 3️⃣ Team Rules w/ Chicago ⚾️ @Cubs: 🐄 Do Simple Better 🫡 Respect 90 ❤️‍🔥 If It Makes You Feel Hot, Wear It

Tom Brady’s (@TomBrady) motivation hack for constant improvement: Take ownership of everything, regardless of what happened. “It’s my fault. I need to do better.” Blame gives you comfort. Ownership gives you something to fix.

Mannnn 🔥 @AlexHormozi cooked with this one: We live in a culture obsessed with "keeping our options open." More options to transfer. More job options. More followers. More opportunities. More side projects. More backup plans. But success isn't found by maximizing options. It's actually created by exhausting them. Every meaningful commitment is an elimination of alternatives. Saying yes to one thing means saying no to an infinite number of others. The paradox is that commitment doesn't shrink your world, it expands it. Commit to one marriage and you unlock a depth of love unavailable to the person who prefers dating around. Commit to one mission and you develop skills, relationships, and opportunities that only reveal themselves after years of investment. Commit to one craft and doors begin to open that never existed when you were dabbling in five different ones. Potential is just unrealized optionality! Progress happens when you cash in your options and accept the tradeoff being offered to you. Because the greatest opportunities in life aren't found by having many doors open for you, they're earned by walking through one door long enough that it leads somewhere worth going. Commitment is one of the strongest signals of leadership. It's a bet on the confidence and belief in the person you're trying/going to become. via @ChrisWillx on @ModernWisdomX

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@MattModderno @WashWizards HBD Matt! 🥳

Today is my birthday and all I want is a @WashWizards win

Tom Brady’s (@TomBrady) no-excuse mindset: 🧱 Every response to an outcome is a brick. Accountability is bricks laid on the road toward where you want to go. 🛣️ 🚧 Excuses are bricks stacked into walls that keep you from getting there. “It’s my fault. I have to do better.” Excuses may feel good for five seconds, but they never change the result. Ownership creates initiative. And that initiative helps you find a way to win.

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When I was in high school, my dad was diagnosed with ALS. 💔 For four years, I helped care for him while watching someone I loved slowly lose the ability to do the things most of us take for granted. Eventually he passed away a few weeks before he was supposed to watch me graduate... 😔 At the time, it definitely felt unfair. Painful. Heavy. What @49ers Head Coach Kyle Shanahan talks about in this clip is something I think everyone eventually learns, and I had to learn at a young age: Experiences aren’t inherently good or bad. They’re neutral. They’re simply information. ⏳Time always reveals what they were preparing you for. So many of the skills I rely on today: perspective, resilience, empathy, patience, gratitude... Were all forged in that season I lost my Dad. Being his primary caretaker alongside my mom, I got a masters level course whether I wanted it or not in teamwork, communication, and what "hard" really meant. I learned a ton of intangible skills but also tangible skills in passing the time at his bedside: design skills, computer skills, and read/wrote A TON. 📚 These skills certainly helped me break into the competitive industry of sports. That experience changed the trajectory of my family’s life. What once felt like tragedy also carried gifts I couldn’t see in the moment, and now am quite thankful for. That's not easy to process, but incredibly powerful to understand. Kyle's dad got fired, he was hurting. That period of time sparked the desire to go work for him if he ever got the chance. An experience he's now eternally grateful for, that has opened doors for him and his family he never dreamed of. 🚪 🧑‍🌾 Much like the old Chinese farmer story, every event in our lives should be followed by the same response: “Maybe. We’ll see.” Here's why I think we should all say that daily: 🏔️ Pain Often Arrives Disguised as Preparation. When Mike Shanahan was fired in by the @Commanders, Kyle Shanahan admits it crushed him. Growing up, his father’s success had become intertwined with his own identity. Watching him struggle forced Kyle to confront a difficult truth about his own ego: his dad’s legacy wasn’t defined by wins, losses, or job titles. And neither would his be. 🎭 Stop Labeling Experiences Too Quickly. It's human nature, we rush to categorize everything. Promotion? Good. Failure? Bad. Opportunity? Good. Setback? Bad. But life rarely is static. Experiences are simply inputs. Their meaning is often revealed years later, when you see looking back, what you were once looking for. 🏈 Detours Build the Skills the Destination Requires. Kyle Shanahan later realized that his father being fired was one of the greatest blessings of his life because it afforded him an opportunity few people ever get: the chance to coach alongside his dad. The very experience that once caused pain gave him wisdom, perspective, and memories he otherwise never would have had. 🪞Let Adversity Clarify What You Love. Kyle describes eventually letting go of ego, legacy, and outside validation. Underneath all of it, he discovered something simple: he just loved football. He loved coaching. And once he stopped needing the journey to look perfect, he was finally able to enjoy it. The experiences that hurt you most are often stripping away who you think you need to be so you can become who you’re meant to become. The hardest seasons of your life may not be interruptions to your story. They may be the chapters that make the rest of it possible.

Who is on your coaching Mt. Rushmore? Let me know who you think the best culture builders in the world are below ⬇️

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