Jim Weeks

Ben McCollum: “The benefit of me being at Division II is I’ve had the opportunity to work through positives and negatives. So I’ve made a lot of mistakes and we’ve done a lot of things right. And I didn’t have a lot of external noise while we were doing that. And then obviously we won a lot of games while we were making mistakes and while positives happened. Fast forward to this, that gives you a sense of confidence to build your roster because it’s like, we’ve built rosters. Obviously, this is the Big Ten – it is different. You need a little better player, a little bigger player, a little more physical player. But the attributes that you still want are still the same from a personality standpoint. Where you want tough kids, you want humble kids, you want guys that want to serve.”

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500 wins for Coach Weeks. #proud2Bpart of it

We often prevent ourselves from seeing things as they are and discovering solutions that are right in front of us because of our impatience and biases of seeing what we want to see…seek out trusted people to challenge your beliefs.

Nobody likes the discomfort of being criticized that’s why doing the right thing takes courage...bad feelings will go away the positive impact you make does not!

In the process of accomplishing big audacious goals its the skills, knowledge, abilities you develop and the person you become that’s most valuable.

Never lower your standards..until you stop making excuses, stop accepting average, stop listening to mediocre advice and fully commit to increase your actions and find solutions you’ll never develop enough toughness or right answers to overcome the obstacles it takes to be great!

A legacy leader never allows the magic within them to die inside them...share what you have, teach what you know and inspire through your remarkable results.

The victor goes a little bit harder and little bit longer and does a little bit more...a devotion to a accomplishing your mission transitions ordinary to extraordinary.

Great leadership is having the vision to be the best and developing the cabilities to adapt for the worst...the great ones anticipate challenges and prepare for adversity.

On a great team everyone feels responsible and empowered to find solutions by listening, adapting, leading each other, leveraging their talent and by doing the work...nobody’s too big to do the small things and together they advance!

Building a championship culture is a long painstaking process of amassing talent, developing skills and establishing character and humility...great leaders know unless they make it their responsibility it probably will not happen.

The more you win in life the more opportunities you create, the greater potential you have and the bigger the impact you make...lifelong winners are more determined than they are talented.

For the courageous people that take great action and create success criticism usually follows; finding fault is a normal response by the weak and overwhelmed...the best way to respond to criticism is to keep taking action.

The best leaders have strong emotional intelligence...they utilize their moods, emotions and actions to make connections, solve problems, create excitement and build a culture that moves people to produce extraordinary results!

Resourceful people never allow less talent to become a disadvantage, their ability to out work, out tough and out create enables them to adapt and succeed...they focus on what they have not what they don’t have!

Success is a result of years and countless hours of deliberate work the public never see’s...approach accomplishing your goals as an obligation not an option.

Our greatest contributions to society occur when we make ourselves available for others to succeed...create a legacy of helping people and never keep score.

Above level of intelligence and personality trait the commonality of all great leaders is their ability to create a climate that drives performance!