Brian Baker

Steve Kerr says Roger Federer taught his Warriors team the secret to sustained success wasn’t outworking everyone, it was building a life around your craft you never want to escape from “I’ll tell you a great story about Roger Federer. We were playing in China with the Warriors in 2017. Roger was in Shanghai for the Masters tournament, so we invited him to come speak to the team.” “Draymond Green asked him, ‘How do you sustain success? How have you managed to win majors 20 years after you first won one?’ Everyone was expecting him to say, ‘I work harder than everybody,’ the will, all the clichés.” “Roger Federer says, ‘I get up every morning and I make breakfast for my kids. Then I take them to school and drop them off. Then I go practice tennis for about two hours, and I’ve figured out a really good routine where I don’t destroy my body, but I can get all the work in I need.” “‘Then I go have lunch with my wife. In the evening, we cook dinner together. The kids are all home from school. We ask them about school. There’s so much joy in the house. We put them to bed, and then I put my head on the pillow and go, “Man, that was just a great day.” And I’ve been doing that for 20 years.’” “And it was like, yes. That’s it. That’s the formula. That’s what leads to sustained success. He loves tennis. He loves his family. He loves life. It’s not outworking everybody and banging your head against the wall, ‘I’m going to be better than everybody.’ It’s allowing your natural talent to shine through with a work ethic, with a great family life, with perspective, with peace, with mindfulness.” “It’s perspective. It’s joy. It’s passion. It’s mindfulness. It’s an awareness that we are truly lucky. To get the most out of ourselves, it’s our daily rituals and experiences and love and joy.”

Head @VandyFootball Coach Clark Lea (@Coach_Lea) on the job of a "Chief Alignment Officer" and "Chief Reminding Officer", performance being tight but not restrictive, and how to drive accountability in your program: 🧭 Be the Chief Alignment Officer. Leadership is the constant work of aligning people around the habits, behaviors, and standards that ACTUALLY drive performance. Alignment isn't necessarily created by dictating what people wear or how they style their hair, it's built by creating clarity around the non-negotiables that lead to winning relative to your organization. 🎯 Keep performance standards tight, not restrictive. Great cultures understand the difference between discipline and control. The standard should be uncompromising in the areas that impact results, while allowing people the freedom to express their individuality everywhere else. Tight standards create trust; unnecessary restrictions create resistance. 🔁 Leadership is more reminding than teaching! Most teams don't suffer from a lack of information, they suffer from a gap of repetition between them and their opponents. The job of a leader is to relentlessly reinforce the behaviors they believe produce success, never growing tired of repeating, modeling, and rewarding the standards that matter most. So that they can continue to deposit reps into those high leverage things. The role of a leader is to obsess over the few things that matter most. Winning belongs to the organizations who can stat what matters with clarity, and tie it back to the players' understanding so they can perform those habits, standards, and behaviors on the field or court.