Better Humans, Better Performance: Driving Leadership, Teamwork, and Culture with Intentionality

COACHING

Coaches have to watch for what they don’t want to see and listen to what they don’t want to hear.¹

—JOHN MADDEN

In 1875, the first Yale-Harvard football game was played. Yale hired Walter Camp, the first college football head coach. Camp created position coaches to preplan every game, develop players, and track performance. On the other side of the field, Harvard competed based on the British approach—players, not coaches, manage the team. Over the next three decades, Yale beat Harvard all but four times. After 30 years, Harvard hired a coach. About a century and half after that football game, the facts are in—coaching and deliberate ...