My last two years of baseball Coaching shaped my perspective and leadership forever…I just didn’t realize it until much later.
My second to last year, we came within one game of the World Series. I was pumped and wanted to get there and thought I needed to make some changes to get there. And that is exactly where the drift started. Not from losing focus, but from wanting to win so badly that I started recruiting differently than what got me there both in terms of character and style of play. I unintentionally changed the culture. By the time the results showed it, we had already lost our culture and the identity that got us there. That is a lot of what this book is about.
Dustin and I have been working on Sustaining Success for a while now. Not because we figured something out, but because we saw how hard it was to sustain success and how drift could happen easily. It had happened to us and we saw it happen to others.
Today paid subscribers will get a first look at the draft of the first few chapters.
These are drafts of the opening chapters. The ones that explain why success is easier to build than it is to sustain and what actually separates programs that stay good from the ones that quietly unravel. We base this book on our motivation research, experiences, ICP Principles, AND our most recent survey research with highly successful small college coaches.
Here is what you will find inside:
The Introduction sets up the upstream thinking framework that anchors the whole book. Chapter 1 covers how this book came to be, what the coaches we surveyed told us, and the Three Cs of Impactful Coaching. Chapter 2 gets into how successful programs actually unravel. Not through collapse but through drift, and the five indicators every coach needs to know. Chapter 3 is about what is happening to the social contract between coaches and athletes right now, and what our research on student-athletes actually tells us about motivation.
