Stay ConnectedWhat do most Fortune 500 executives have in common? They learned important lessons on the fields and courts of their high school and collegiate sports teams. This is true for both men and women. Ernst & Young found that a whopping 94% of women holding a C-suite position, played sports.
Join 13-time New York Times Best-Selling Author Don Yaeger on his journey to sit with some of the brightest executives in the world as we discuss how sports shaped their professional trajectory in life.
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Ep. 56: Baseball shaped this great leader who has served as the president of Baptist Hospital and founded his own businesses serving his two passions: healthcare excellence and strong communities. Many have read his books on leadership and business operations.
Studer co-owns the Pensacola Blue Wahoos minor league baseball team with golf great Bubba Watson. The little-known team grabbed headlines in 2020 after the COVID pandemic shut down normal operations when they turned the stadium into a giant Airbnb.
The creative venture brought in revenue to the team provided a much-needed source of entertainment during the pandemic and earned international publicity.
Do you want your internal team to come up with genius ideas? Listen for six practices you can try to help your team hit it out of the park.
YOU WILL LEARN:
3:00 Baseball's impact on Quint's life.
13:00 How to bookend feedback with support.
20:00 The six do's and don'ts for optimizing creativity and problem-solving on your team
29:00 How to turn down somebody's idea without turning down the person.
32:00 How to replace a culture of "no" with a culture of "yes."
33:30 When to credit your team with a great idea (even if you had it first).
35:00 Why perfectionism "kills" innovation.
37:00 Bubba Watson's partnership with Quint and the Blue Wahoo baseball team.
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Ep. 55: NFL special edition with guest host John C. Maxwell to discuss the benefits of having a system your whole team buys into.
"I used to say the job of a leader is to set the standard and demand all live up to that," said three-time national championship coach Urban Meyer. "I've come to believe the job of a leader is to earn your team's trust. And then you set a standard while equipping and inspiring them so they can achieve the standard."
Meyer's system for building a deep bench will help any business leader build strong teams in their organizations. Here you will learn about:
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Ep. 54: Harvard Hockey shaped this business icon. Angela took her joy of sport and turned it into a high-profile career. She played longer than any other man or woman in a USA Hockey jersey and was only the fourth woman inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame!
After she hung up her skates, she continued her studies at Harvard Business School and served on the International Olympic Committee. She was fascinated by the business of sports which led her to co-found Sports Innovation Lab, a data-driven market research firm that serves major companies throughout the world.
In this episode, she offers several experience-tested ways for "controlling the controllables" to ensure you and your team never leave the "field of play" without having given 100 percent. I have my notepad ready. I hope you do, too.
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Ep. 53: Track and Field shaped this incredible leader.
Before joining RE/MAX – one of the largest publicly traded real estate companies in the world with 135,000 agents operating in 110 countries— Adam Contos ran a SWAT team, working for a local Sheriff's Office. He describes the job as "kicking in doors, blowing things up, and saving people."
In this episode, Adam shares that while his current professional life is completely different, his approach to leading high-performance teams remains the same. His goal is to break down barriers, blow up conventional thinking, and help as many people as possible achieve success.
How do you scale your organization in a way that values the people who are building it? You will find out here. I have my notepad ready. I hope you do, too!
Listen here or on Apple, Spotify, and IHeartRatdio.
You will learn:
(5:00) How to distinguish what you can control. (6:00) How to lead from the front. (12:30) How to use success as a stepping stone. (16:30) How to prioritize people over processes. (18:30) How to recruit people to FIT your culture. (24:00) The difference between a Super Bowl team and a Pro Bowl team in business.
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Ep. 51: As an equestrian in her native Australia, Kristy Ingram had to learn how to make the transition from managing horses to managing people when her competitive days ended.
Her 15 years of consulting experience includes managing Ernst & Young's sponsorship of the Rio Olympics and developing their Women's Athlete Business Network. Today she is EY's Global Leader of Athlete Programs where she helps talent-hungry managers tap into a leadership pipeline that most overlook… retired athletes.
A big part of that process involves language and, specifically, the "descriptors" used to describe who we are—our identity. Many of us, not just athletes, will have to reinvent ourselves professionally from time to time. This conversation will prove to be a valuable tool in your toolkit.
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Ep. 51: Pittsburgh Basketball and 10 years in the NBA shaped this entrepreneur. Charles Smith played with the Los Angeles Clippers, New York Knicks, and San Antonio Spurs. During that window, he was often asked to assume new roles, sometimes mid-season. The one skill he worked on constantly was shot blocking, and still today he ranks in the NBA's top one percent of all-time shot blockers.
After retiring, he participated in the Executive Entrepreneurs program at Stanford University and has recently partnered with Fierce Inc., a global leadership development and training company whose client roster includes Apple, Coca Cola, and HBO. One of Fierce's critical areas of focus involves helping teams communicate better.
"There's an old saying in sport," Charles said, "The game tape or practice tape doesn't lie. If you fall down, it's there for all to see. Businesses don't have tape like sports teams do, but they do have measurables."
And if the tape doesn't get you, observed the 10-year NBA player, a good teammate will. Listeners to this podcast will enjoy Charles' no-nonsense insights forged in the heat of world-class competition.
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Ep. 50: Navy Basketball shaped this business icon. Carl Liebert played alongside two of the best players in the program's history in Vernon Butler and David Robinson. He went on to earn advanced degrees from Harvard, Stanford, and Vanderbilt en route to attaining two decades of C-Suite experience at Home Depot, 24- Hour Fitness, USAA, AutoNation, and now Keller Williams' parent holding company KWx.
In this episode, Carl discusses how leaders can prevent their teams from turning one mistake into two and explains why he gives his team "permission to fail."
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Ep. 49: Delaware Lacrosse is just one of the FUN experiences Steve shares with Don Yaeger.
Listen to our conversation and then tune into College Bowl Tuesday nights on NBC!
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Ep. 48: Bubba Watson is an enthusiastic businessman with ownership stakes in the Blue Wahoos baseball team, a car dealership, and a candy shop in Pensacola, Florida. His heartfelt tears in the winner's circle, joyously goofy hip hop performance in the boy band Golf Boys, and passionate advocacy for adoption have endeared him to millions.
In near lockstep with his considerable success on the golf course and growing portfolio of businesses, Watson has had to confront his battle with anxiety head-on. Since most of this struggle was private, few know Watson's hard-won techniques for facing up to and then facing down his problems. In this episode, you will learn three methods that helped Watson cope and how he refocused his priorities.
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Ep. 47: Basketball shaped one of the country's best restaurant leaders. GJ served as CEO of California Pizza Kitchen and CEO of Texas Roadhouse, where he oversaw growth in revenue from $63 million per year when he arrived to more than $1 billion annually when he moved. Today he is in Austin, Texas, leading the rocket ship that is Torchy's Tacos, one of the fastest-growing brands in America.
A proud graduate of James Madison University, GJ wanted to offer opportunities to students like himself and, in 2012, made a substantial donation of his time and resources that led the university to place his name atop the Hart School of Hospitality, Sport and Recreation Management.
In this episode, GJ shares why he hires for attitude over ability and offers listeners six proven lessons for leadership.
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