Podcast Episodes

Leadership Principles: Know Who Really is in Control

We are wrapping up our time of learning different leadership principles that I learned while playing under Coach Dean Smith. He was such a man of cha…

2 years, 11 months ago

Leadership Principles: Make Failure Your Friend

We have two more days of leadership principles that I want to share with you. I learned these while playing under Coach Dean Smith at The University …

2 years, 11 months ago

Leadership Principles: A Commitment to Character

While playing for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Coach Smith always led his teams with a deep commitment to character. He knew the …

2 years, 11 months ago

The Power of Positive Words

Proverbs 18:21 says that "life and death is in the tongue." Words are powerful in general. But there is a power in positive words that can lift someo…

2 years, 11 months ago

Leadership Principles: How the Team Improves

Coach Dean Smith instilled many significant leadership principles into my life. I am sharing some of them with you over these two weeks. I hope they …

2 years, 11 months ago

Leadership Principles: Success Requires a Flexible Vision

It is so important that leaders develop immutable principles to live by as they lead, love, and serve those around them. I gleaned many of these pric…

2 years, 11 months ago

Leadership Principles: The Team Before the Individual

The team before the individual. This leadership principle was ingrained from Coach Dean Smith to every member of the UNC basketball team. In fact, if…

2 years, 11 months ago

Leadership Principles: Friends are Forever

Friends are forever. This is the next leadership principle I learned playing under Coach Dean Smith.

When I first arrived on the campus of UNC as a f…

2 years, 11 months ago

Loyalty Best Prospers in a Family Environment

Over the next two weeks, as the nation enjoys March Madness, I am sharing some of the leadership principles I learned while playing basketball for Co…

2 years, 11 months ago

The Reciprocal Law of Loyalty

Our Leadership Principles blog series is inspired by David's book "It's How You Play the Game: The 12 Leadership Principles of Dean Smith." If you wo…

2 years, 11 months ago