Topics-

-Accountability Buddy System

-Extreme Ownership

-"You might not be the best coach for every player on your team." -Cody Royle

-Rule of 3: self, teammate, coach

-Simple systems to give you speed

Links:

Adam Davidson Tweet

Signaling Busyness Article by Drew and Mikhail

Topics:

-Range

-Best idea wins

-Avoiding silos

-Finding the next 'wheely suitcase' idea

Article: Red Queen in Hockey

Topics:

-Adapting year to year, or when to hold true and slightly iterate

-Deprogramming players, and disrupting causes disruption

-How Derek Lalonde used a tactic to improve player ownership

-Idea how to speed up feedback loops to iterate

Mark Bennett

Lalonde idea article

Right Idea, Wrong Place

In this episode, Mikhail and Drew speak about 3 razors:

1. The bragging razor

2. The surgeon's paradox

3. The humility razor

Article mentioned: https://drewcarlsonhp.substack.com/p/a-paradox-to-choose-better-people

George Mack Twitter: @george_mack

We bounce from topic to topic exploring 5 or 6 rabbit holes from:

-Infinite Players playing with the boundaries of talent acquisition

-Russian 5 came from being 'contrarian and right'

-What we miss when we go look to copy success

-Developing players by accident vs. intentionally

-Unofficial Pipeline speculation to keep players compounding their development

Mikhail and I speak on:

Related Readings and Things Mentioned

Naurato Article from Sam Stockton

Art of Coaching

Oliver David Podcast

Mikhail and I speak on:

-How to increase your own thoughts by paradoxically decreasing inputs

-Blood stagnates, thoughts stagnate

-Coach as High Performer

-How to periodize your career for sustainability

-Figuring out your 'kill criteria as a Level 1 Coach

Some case studies and conversation topics include:

-Tampa's process with the infinite game

-Buffalo following a similar process with Granato and Adams

-The next teams to take that step

-The advantages of the infinite game

-Chicago Steel case study on coach promotion

Related Readings: https://drewcarlsonhp.substack.com/p/infinite-players-in-infinite-games

Article 2 by Mikhail: https://beyondtheglasshockey.com/2022/04/development-of-an-infinite-game.html

We riff on a presentation Mikhail saw at the AHCA convention in Naples.

Topics Include:

-being 'higher brained'

-energy/quantum dynamics "what you fear is what you get"

-'aligning the rooms'

Mikhail Article

Drew Article on Cooper Contrasting