I’ve been looking at why teams, organisations and regions keep being mediocre and there are three themes that keep reoccurring. They are: Inflated Ego Fixed mindset Player power An ego, everyone has one, it depends on how you direct it. You can either have an inflated ego or defer it to something else. A fixed…
When working with your side one of the biggest things you have to do is to work out if the senior player power base is for you as a coach or against you? Whether you like it or not, it’s the senior players of the side who rule the team. If you pick on talent…
How often do you see sides when good players leave and the team start to play better? Over the years you see a team that has underperformed and then for whatever reason there is a clean out of most of the good players. The players that are left start performing and working as a team….
We’ve all seen it or come across it at some stage, where the players are dictating the terms, in other words the monkey is in charge of the organ grinder. There are many reasons for player power, though at its heart is a player’s unwillingness to learn and so it becomes a battle of wills….
