Providing Insights on Leadership and Success. Coach Bechler is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.
While taking hundreds of flights throughout my life only once has my luggage gotten lost and that was on my honeymoon (fortunately, it wasn’t a sign of things to come)!
The second time occurred when traveling to speak at some high schools.
After speaking at a prestigious prep school in the Washington D.C. area, I was traveling to Charlotte, NC to speak at a large high school in that city.
Today’s guest on the “LEADERS GROWING LEADERS” series is Mike McGurk, athletic director at Lee’s Summit North HS in Missouri and President of the NIAAA.
During the “Leaders Growing Leaders” series on the Success is a Choice Podcast Network, Jamy Bechler talks with leaders about how they are growing and developing other leaders.
The series tries to examine how various leaders are making the people around them better and building a stronger, healthier culture.
A wise man once faced a group of people who were complaining about the same issues over and over again.
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One day, instead of listening to the complaints, he told them a joke, and everyone cracked up laughing.
When the great baseball Hall of Famer and African American icon Jackie Robinson died in 1972, his widow called Boston Celtics player Bill Russell and asked him to be a pallbearer at her husband’s funeral.
When asked why, she responded that Russell had been Jackie Robinson’s favorite athlete.
All of the pallbearers were Jackie’s former teammates with the Brooklyn Dodgers, except for Bill Russell.
It’s likely that Bill Russell was Jackie Robinson’s favorite athlete – not because he was so athletic or talented – but because he was a champion, both on and off the playing court.
Many consider Bill Russell one of the greatest teammates of all time.
My small Michigan high school had a great deal of success on both the gridiron and the hard courts.
Jonesville High School had some really good athletes that played both sports but we also had two great head coaches … Bill Dunn in basketball and Greg Morrison in football.
Because my mother wouldn’t allow me to play football … why mom why?!?😀 … I was one of the few players on my high school basketball team that didn’t also play football.