To read Part 1, which will serve as the jumping-off point, click here.
Part of the struggle of being a New Wave Coach is that you get passed up a lot when opportunities knock. The more I interview, the more I hear, “you don’t fit what we are trying to do.”
Which is fine. We will learn in the second book how to deal with what our imaginary coach dealt with in Part 1.
Here’s my new working theory on this perpetuation problem we are dealing with.
The shit is rising to the top faster than the cream.
Let’s get into this.
What Gets Rewarded Gets Repeated
Why is the shit rising to the top in hockey faster than any cream of the New Wave crop?
Follow me on this journey.
If the young coach didn’t want to be New Wave, but still advance his career, he would just do a really good job for the coach that hired him.
If the young coach:
Shuts his mouth
Is at the rink before and after the Head Coach
Is seen “always doing something”
Good things will happen for him. Why?
Because the HC(who has all the network connections to advance him) will rave about the kid at conferences in the offseason. “This guy works so incredibly hard, he’s just always doing something.”
That’s good enough to get one of his buddies at a higher level to promote you.
But here is the thing about “hard-working guys…”
They are typically trying to make up for an inadequacy.
You know, like the guys that drive big trucks…
Great Kid, Loves the Game
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