Nick DiMarco, Assistant AD for Peak Performance at Elon, just released "The Director's Manual." It is the book every assistant should read before they take the head job, and every director should read after they take it. We get into hiring, system building, managing up to your AD, getting admin to fund your vision, and why most strength coaches burn out trying to do everything themselves.

If you want to run a department instead of just lift weights, this one is for you.

Pick up The Director's Manual on Amazon.

0:00 Intro

3:00 Nick's path from William Penn to NFL to Iowa to Elon

14:00 Why he wrote The Director's Manual

17:00 Autonomy inside a system, not outside of it

20:00 Hiring: the internship pipeline, the trusted network, the open posting

28:00 Patrick Lencioni - humble, hungry, smart

32:00 Aggressive patience and getting admin to fund the vision

37:00 Eliminating the negatives going upstairs

40:00 Building outside projects without burning out

43:00 Unlimited hours - what would you actually do

47:00 Where to find Nick