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Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All The Facts. Annie Duke
This book is applicable to any coach out there. The central idea is that we are playing poker with decisions while managing the unknowns along with the knowns. It is the play on complex decision making we talk about within so much of our Coaching Curriculum. We do not...
The Issue with Reductionist Based Thinking
What we have to understand is that complex problems are never going to be the sum of its parts. Meaning that if we worked backwards from the end, and break down into individual segments, they will never be able to fit perfectly back together at the end. Establishing a...
What I’m Reading – The Only Rule is It Has to Work
The reason why the feeling of losing is worse than the joy from winning is the sunk cost associated with losing. Not only do you feel the despair of coming up short, but the effort prior to that loss is essentially wasted or misused that time that preceded that. This was such a profound…
Strength Coach Chronicles – High Performance Model a Failure (Pt. III)?
Part I - Organizational Structure we went through why the High Performance Model is not a good fit for top down organizational structures. Part II - HPM Model we went through what the HPM actually is supposed to look like. In Part III we are going to review what we...
What I’m Reading – Maximum Muscle Bible
I got to come out and say this, I did not enjoy this book. I have gone through both Christian Thibaudeau and Paul Carter’s stuff before, which I would say was good. Maybe that was the problem, I was very familiar with what the book was going to say before I even...
Strength Coach Chronicles – High Performance Model a Failure (Pt. II)?
Part I - Organizational Structure we went through why the High Performance Model (HPM) is not a good fit for top down organizational structures. In this Part II, we are going to review what the High Performance Model actually looks like, in part to show I actually do...
What I’m Reading – Imagine it Forward
Imagine it Forward I try to read as many books that are going to accommodate what I need to be for my job. I need to be a great coach, not just to the paying customers and athletes but to my coaches and staff as well. Innovation or great ideas are not something that...
What I Am Reading – The Great Starvation Experiment
The Great Starvation Experiment One of my favorite podcasts is Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History Podcast. Gladwell did an entire season dedicated to creating experiments - which brought me to this book. The Department of Physiological Hygiene Part I The Rise of...
Strength Coach Chronicles – High Performance Model a Failure? (Pt. I)
I have this image of a European soccer club having this beautiful set up of players, coaches, and trainers connected as one towards the path of sports mastery. This utopia of high performance with everyone in complete synergy with each-other. But we all know that is a...
Strength Coach Chronicles – Preparing for Post Season
There is a certain amount of anxiety or relief going into the final parts of a competitive season. Anxiety is centered around having a chance to move on to future success. Relief of a season filled with disappointment is almost over. Post season with college sports is...
What I’m Reading – Team of Teams (Gen. Stanley McChrystal)
Team of Teams What is amazing about this book is that it was a solution that was forged organically to meet the needs of the situation. The story is what makes this sticky - the Iraq War forced the US military to adapt to an ever changing landscape. We are constantly...
What I’m Reading – How to Create a Mind
How to Create a Mind For those not familiar with Ray Kurzweil, you should be. He has a profound amount of insight on Artificial Intelligence, which may or may not matter to you. What you will find with this book, it should. Kurzweil wrote a very interesting book on...