On practicing difficult layups, nurturing culture, and seeing your potential

July 4 | The 3-Point Play
 
BASKETBALL TIP
Practice shooting difficult layups.

Most players practice only easy, unmolested ones where there is plenty of time to get the steps and the timing done perfectly. But the problem is that most game layups are not like this.

Many times you must go off the wrong foot, or you have to change your course or your shot suddenly. If you haven’t spent time practicing these, how can you expect to make them in games?

LEADERSHIP LESSON
“Culture trumps everything. It trumps personality; it trumps biology; it trumps our previous education and training. Culture trumps everything because culture drives behavior. It is unspoken, automatic, and almost invisible.

Culture helps us determine what we should or should not do in a given situation. This is what makes culture crucial to business: the CEO cannot be physically available to influence every choice that every employee has to make each day. But culture can.

Culture is the water in which we swim, and just like fish, we usually don’t know that it is there. The CEO’s role is to care for the culture. To nurture it so that it is fresh and healthy. Otherwise, dangerous parasites will invade the pond.”

– Trey Taylor

LIFE PRINCIPLE
“One of the difficulties of stretching ourselves is that we tend to see ourselves as our limitations, not as our potential. We’re lost in our own world.”

– David Rock