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MUSINGS FROM THE BENCH

Book Recommendation - Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

Authors - Alan Eagle III Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg

It’s All About the Team

The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value.

Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt.

In addition, this business genius mentored dozens of other important leaders on both coasts, from entrepreneurs to venture capitalists to educators to football players, leaving behind a legacy of growing companies, successful people, respect, friendship, and love after his death in 2016.

Based on interviews with over eighty people who knew and loved Bill Campbell, Trillion Dollar Coach explains the Coach’s principles and illustrates them with stories from the many great people and companies with which he worked. The result is a blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create higher performing and faster moving cultures, teams, and companies.

SYSTEM OF THE WEEK

DZ - Retrieval & Slot/Mid Zone Protection Under Pressure

On retrieval, there must be close support by player 2. This can be D2 or F1. Other players must back check to the zone between the dots with head on a swivel recognizing opposition players position on entry.

As battle and puck pursuit happens, defensive players must protect the mid zone between the dots. In this system, there must always be two players in the net front.

You will notice that under extreme pressure that the defensive players protect the mid zone in a “5 On a Di” formation.

DRILL OF THE WEEK

PP Entry Retrieval Reps - Four

DZ Coverage drill that promotes backcheck awareness and positioning.

1. Xs play offense v O defense, 5v4. 15 seconds.

2. Coach Blows Whistle, red line O skates puck to opposite end and takes it behind the net.

3. Os become offense and join redline puck carrier. 

4. Xs backcheck and become defensive line in opposite end.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

PERFORMANCE ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

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