Micromanaging & Empowerment The following is an extract from my new book ’59 Lessons – Working with the world’s Greatest Coaches, Athletes, & Special Forces’ where I share my greatest insights into what makes winners truly great. You must empower the players. Don’t try to play from the sidelines. Don’t micromanage. Fergus Connolly Everyone […]
Winning in Life, Business & Sport is a People Business The following is an extract from my new book ’59 Lessons – Working with the world’s Greatest Coaches, Athletes, & Special Forces’ where I share my greatest insights into what makes winners truly great. Caring for people matters more than intelligence, skills or your fame. […]
A Lesson in True Humility The following is an extract from my new book ’59 Lessons – Working with the world’s Greatest Coaches, Athletes, & Special Forces’ where I share my greatest insights into what makes winners truly great. There are many lessons I’ve been so fortunate to have learned from the world’s best […]
OPTION OR A PRIORITY Managing People Never make someone a priority who makes you an option. I’ll apologize now to all of you who are reminded of your age, however many of you will remember the Guns ‘n’ Roses, song ‘A Civil War. The year? 1990. Apart from a great track, the opening moments […]
Minor Setback for a Major Comeback When a setback isn’t a setback Many years ago a frustrated headmaster at Chaote Rosemary Hall, a Connecticut prep school, sat to write a report for a young student. The headmaster described how the young student was ‘casual and disorderly’, and how he “studies at the last minute, keeps […]
Judging a Book by it’s Cover “59 Lessons – Working with the world’s greatest coaches, athletes, & Special Forces” is coming soon. Writing a book is one big challenge – deciding on the cover is even bigger. We all know people judge book by their covers even though we shouldn’t … which would […]
MLB Player Development & Sports Science Welcome to the last in my series of MLB sports science and elite performance. You can catch the previous two if you missed them here: Building The Right Sports Science Program Learning from other sports – Reverse Engineering Sports Science As we all know investment in […]
Before Worrying About Analysis – Lets Optimize Information First The 5 I’s of Information Management Never before have we had so much information, yet never before has knowledge been so elusive. One of the challenges in business, military and sport today is separating data, information, knowledge and wisdom. While people jump straight into complex statistical analysis […]
Three Books on Leadership for Coaches One of the questions I get asked most frequently is about recommend reading … I love to read, I always have and have such a large collection of books that I’ve now run out of shelf space. Reading is the greatest gift I believe you can give to a […]
How to Dominate with Sustainable Success In Game Changer I first wrote about a not-too subtle phenomenon that occurs in many leadership situations. I referred to this as the – ‘The Three-Year Rule” where, many new programs and coaches fail or begin to struggle in their third year. The great Hungarian manager Béla Guttmann, […]
