There’s a tendency to lend ‘leadership’ esteem to those who execute a “leader’s” duties. On the baseball diamond, it’s the coaches, or those who provide the instruction, delegate responsibility, and develop the strategies, that are held in high regard leadership-wise, simply based on their role with the team. However, not all coaches are leaders. While it may be the case with many teams – that the head coach or manager holds the most distinguished role, and is also the posses

Earlier this week, I had an email exchange with the father (Jeff) of one of the boys (Wyatt) I began coaching the night before. I was so imp

My favorite manager from pro ball once confided to me that throughout the course of a 162-game season, “a ‘good manager’ will ‘help’ his team win 10 games. A ‘bad manager’ will ‘help’ his team to lose 10 games. And the rest is up to the players.” Of these 10 wins or losses, most of the ‘help’ the manager provides comes from in-game strategy, or the coach pulling the correct strings at the correct moment (i.e. should we bunt, hit and run, steal a base, should we run the starti