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Tyrann Mathieu’s story needs to be heard 💯

"It's called accountability. Holding a player accountable to play up to their individual potential. When you do that...it permeates through the entire team." Your greatest ability is accountability. Because, your accountability determines how far your potential can take you.

Zach Randolph torture chamber ‘14-15

Kelvin Sampson shares why most coaches and leaders fail - and it's not what you think. "I think the coaches that fail at every level are the coaches that are passive-aggressive. Passive-aggressive coaches are usually afraid to hold kids accountable. They rationalize." They avoid the hard conversations. They let things slide and hope problems fix themselves. "If you're going to build a culture, the first thing you have to come to grips with is you're going to have confrontation. Because you want it done your way." Culture requires confrontation. Not conflict, but confrontation. There's a difference. "All the coaches that got fired, I'd always try to learn more from those guys than the other guys. 'Why are you guys getting fired? What is it you're not doing?'" The answer? They overlooked the little things. "Touching every line is a metaphor for life...Do you let that go? You start letting that go, then that kid may never touch the line." The little things become the big things. The details you ignore become the standards you accept. The best leaders are both warm and demanding. You know they care, but they also emphasize the little things. If you're afraid to confront, you're afraid to lead. (🎥 THSCA Basketball - CoachTube)

Marcus Freeman shares why "leading by example" isn't enough. "We don't love leaders by example. Because leaders by example are guys that do what they're told to do, they do everything they're asked, right?" "But they don't say things when their teammates aren't reaching the standard. We can't have that." Real leadership isn't just performing at the standard. It's protecting the standard. "We need more leaders. Guys that are willing to hold their teammates accountable because it's gonna make your teammate better." Accountability isn't about being hard on people. It's about caring enough to not let them settle. "I wanna make everybody in our organization the best they possibly can be. So if I let you cut corners or I don't say something to you when you're falling under the standard, then I'm not helping push you to the best you can be." Leading by example is the baseline. Leading with accountability is the standard. (🎥notredamebusiness )