Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner

You can think of boundaries as design criteria for a shared experience. Designers will tell you that constraints are needed to generate creativity and that no good design happens without them. As you discuss each team member’s personal boundaries, you articulate what the team needs to be at its best. It is kind to share your boundaries with others

Never figure out what you want your people to do and then try to create a game out of it. If it’s to be seen as serious, the game has to come first; what your people do, second.

While your spouse and family can be extremely important for support, they may not be equipped to deal with the magnitude of your professional issues in this area. Thus, develop a small, trusted network of people whose opinions you respect and are willing to honestly evaluate. My own make-up resisted this. As I marched forward as head coach, I becam

A community in which you always have the right and obligation to make sense of things and a process for working yourselves through disagreements—i.e., a real, functioning idea meritocracy. I want you to think, not follow—while recognizing that you can be wrong and that you have weaknesses—and I want to help you get the most likely best answers, eve