I am stealing this blog post from Greg Brown at UCF. There is a link to his blog on the bottom of my homepage. He has some great thoughts!
One of the challenges we face with our team in teaching leadership is the concept of holding each other accountable. Too many times our players know what to do, but hesitate in "calling someone out" for fear of how they might react.
I have been re-reading Dick Bennett's book and he spoke to this exact concept:
From Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay on “Friendship”
There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship. One is truth. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. The other element is tenderness {love}. When a man becomes dear to me, I have touched the goal of fortune.
Dick Bennett to his Wisconsin team:
“It is amazing how close you guys are off the floor. You really like each other. But the thing you lack for one another is a real love. You do not love one another to the point where you will say the things that need to be said, because you do not want to ruffle each other’s feathers. Well, that is just not good enough…I do not wish to treat friendship daintily, but with roughest courage…If you truly loved one another, you would make each other do what has to be done. In this case, you would chase each other down if someone was going to be late for a meal. You can’t always be best buddies and look the other way. Sometimes love is not always kind, it is tough. Until you experience that, you will not come together for a single purpose.
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