Former NFL coach and founding director of the Center for Sports Leadership & Innovation (UT_CSLi) @CoachDKR wrote the book using lectures he gives his students and his own life experiences as a Black man in the U.S.: utex.as/3lb0Ac4 via Modesto Alcalde

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway." --Eleanor Roosevelt

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody." --Herbert Swope

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing." --Peter F. Drucker

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." --Ralph Nader

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." --Warren G. Bennis

The harder we work to prove our status, the more insecure we appear. Respect is rarely claimed through acts of self-importance. It's regularly earned through making others feel important. The people we admire are those who go out of their way to help us feel seen and heard.

"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself." --Joel Barker

Self-care, during times of high-stress, is essential. It sounds simple and obvious, but, when we’re in survival mode, many of us don’t take good enough care of ourselves. Eat/Hydrate Well Sleep Well Move Well Think Well Laugh This week, commit to mastering 3 of these. 🤝

Amen. If social media gives you anxiety and fear, step away for a bit. If news gives you anxiety and fear, stop watching the news. It’s okay. You can be informed without being consumed. Consume things that bring you peace, that give you hope. Better inputs ➡️ Better outputs

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit." --Arnold Glasow

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." --John Maxwell

"The things we fear most in organizations--fluctuations, distubances, imbalances--are the primary sources of creativity." --Margaret Wheatley

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." --Lao Tzu

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." --Edith Wharton

"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."--Vince Lombardi

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." --Eleanor Roosevelt

"To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want."--Dianne Feinstein