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Topics:
-Tua talks about the 2 HCs he's played for and the differences between Power vs. Force Coaches
-Why knowing a player's mental training age is as important as the physical training age
-Different ideas and ways to unlock potential
-How to identify 'sleeping giant' players
Link to Tua video: https://youtube.com/shorts/6FozH5KXmn8?si=PWPI2C15jPtjVPjq
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Topics Include:
-Dusty May's critical point with Michigan Basketball
-What button Joe Maddon pushed when taking over the Cubs
-When culture is really needed and what it's for
-Mike McDaniel: "I can't wait to go on our first 3-game losing streak"
-How a lack of range creates a smaller inventory of possible solutions
Articles: https://drewcarlsonhp.substack.com/p/in-powered-coach-dusty-may
https://coachingidaho.substack.com/p/takeaways-from-dusty-may?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5546921/2024/06/07/dusty-may-michigan-basketball-roster/
The Pivot Pod with McDaniel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yXxYQj5S0M
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Topics Include:
-A quote on growth and fixed mindsets
-Everyone is always right because the truth is perceptual
-How environments limit or unlock players (ie. Josh Ho-Sang and Pierre-Luc Dubois)
-Looking at who players have played for and why there's edge there-How Anthony Noreen increases his confidence interval with his hiring process
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Topics Discussed:
-Paradox of what we think matters to results (hard skills) and what actually matters to results (soft skills)
-Understanding where the critical point is within your team. Where you can exert the least amount of effort for the most change
-A personal story where ownership was identified as the critical point within a college hockey team
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Topics Include:
-George Mack's Trust Spectrum
-The application of that to getting coaching jobs or not
-Trust and honesty in recruiting
-A thought to open source each GM's confidence interval for draft picks
-Random recruiting stories and other topics
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Topics:
-The Henry Ford Razor
-With enough space, character reveals itself
-The difference between do-ing and be-ing
-Examples of Level 1 Coaches w/ high character: Warsofsky and Muse
-Being who you are is the best way to find your true fit
Article: https://drewcarlsonhp.substack.com/p/4-lessons-from-sineks-coffee-cups?utm_source=publication-search
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Topics:
-Why 'what got you here won't get you there' is bad advice for a Level 1 Coach
-Ryan Warsofsky and Joe Mazzulla lean into 'personal edge'
-Why Level 1 Coaches should be 'perceptually' more attractive than central casting coaches but aren't
-Brian Kight's 10,80,10 principle and how it can give you an edge to fish in a different pond in recruiting people or players
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Topics:
-Naurato's quote about not matching lines and why dictating is better than reacting
-Getting out of your players' way as a coach
-Getting out of your way as a coach
-How mental weakness creates physical weakness
-What you think about is what you bring about
-A filter question to ask yourself before speaking to a player
Jesse Marsch Article: https://drewcarlsonhp.substack.com/p/one-coach-to-study?utm_source=publication-search
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Topics:
-A quote from Michigan Hockey HC, Brandon Naurato to begin the discussion
-Dusty May's hypothetical question: Would you rather make it to the Final 4 10 years in a row and not win the championship or win in once and never go back again?
-It isn't working or it isn't working 'YET'
-How to know if you have a Power or Force Coach based on win percentage trajectory
-T.J. Manastersky's mental model or Smoothie vs. Steak for making changes to team play
Dusty May Podcast Link
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Topics Discussed:
-The LA Kings best players speaking public on their lack of interest playing a system
-How not giving players self-determination principles of autonomy and relatedness can lead to division between coaches and players
-How the best forecheck is one the players want to do
-The Barry Sanders Razor: Assume players are closer to quitting on you than you think they are
(Article Link:https://drewcarlsonhp.substack.com/p/the-barry-sanders-razor)
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Topics:
-Buffalo Sabres recent firing of Power Coach Granato for Force Coach Ruff
-Infinite vs. Finite Mindsets
-Letting 'The Process' Compound
-Fear and it's nature
-Chicago Steel, Detroit Red Wings, Tampa Bay Lightning, and other Infinite organization talk
@drewcarlsonhp on Twitter
@Mikhail Twitter
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Topics Covered:
-Hunter Charneski's 'Personal Inventory' and it's application to coaching choices
-What is important and what is not and valuing those things
-How big rocks have longer feedback loops which is why we love focusing on the cookie bags (small things)
- Personal stories and tactics Mikhail has used in his current position
-Sam Hinkie, Simon Sinek, Greg Powers, Detroit Red Wings and the Infinite Game
Link to Hunter's Video Teaching on Personal Inventory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRtAgddvFOk
Catch Part 1 of this convo here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/02pMSzKTnyBPm62EKV6PK6
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Topics Covered:
-Intro to Power Laws
-How they apply to players, coaches, and teams
-The Podcast Razor
-Insecurity vs. Security
-How 2 D1 coaches model this razor
Links:
Morey Pod: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7cSWAVJ5VehOBFrMrwGcjw
Power Laws: https://medium.com/@quantvc/power-laws-in-venture-capital-why-the-long-tail-matters-22e057c6fa34
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Topics Discussed:
-Why certain industries attract certain archetypes
-Why coaching attracts the uncoachable even though every coach will say they are
-Pride vs. Humility
-What a displacement behavior is and why coaches should become aware of it
-Each player has a perceptual reality and you have to live in theirs, not yours as a leader
-Why "driving 100 miles and hour" as a coach creates problems addressing the 'real problems'
-Power Laws: Everyone says they are coachable but we can't all be... because the math doesn't math on that
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Topics-
-Judging people on a page in their massive story book
-Learning regardless of 'liking' a person
-Antithesis Principle
-Mike Babcock Columbus situation takeaways you won't hear most places
-Coaches being self-promoting is seen as 'bad'
People to dive in on
-Shreyas Doshi
-George Mack
Article Referenced:
https://drewcarlsonhp.substack.com/p/a-thought-experiment-featuring-deion
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Topics-
-Accountability Buddy System
-Extreme Ownership
-"You might not be the best coach for every player on your team." -Cody Royle
-Rule of 3: self, teammate, coach
-Simple systems to give you speed
Links:
Adam Davidson Tweet
Signaling Busyness Article by Drew and Mikhail
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Topics:
-Range
-Best idea wins
-Avoiding silos
-Finding the next 'wheely suitcase' idea
Article: Red Queen in Hockey
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Topics:
-Adapting year to year, or when to hold true and slightly iterate
-Deprogramming players, and disrupting causes disruption
-How Derek Lalonde used a tactic to improve player ownership
-Idea how to speed up feedback loops to iterate
Mark Bennett
Lalonde idea article
Right Idea, Wrong Place
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In this episode, Mikhail and Drew speak about 3 razors:
1. The bragging razor
2. The surgeon's paradox
3. The humility razor
Article mentioned: https://drewcarlsonhp.substack.com/p/a-paradox-to-choose-better-people
George Mack Twitter: @george_mack
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We bounce from topic to topic exploring 5 or 6 rabbit holes from:
-Infinite Players playing with the boundaries of talent acquisition
-Russian 5 came from being 'contrarian and right'
-What we miss when we go look to copy success
-Developing players by accident vs. intentionally
-Unofficial Pipeline speculation to keep players compounding their development
- Vis mere
