Lessons From The Sidelines

What does it look like when somebody who coached Michael Jordan, Isaiah Thomas, and Joe Dumars — and won back-to-back titles with the Detroit Pistons “Bad Boys” — finishes a 50-year career and says the most important thing in coaching is love?Brendan Suhr joins Coach Greg Brown for Episode 2 of Lessons From The Sidelines. Brendan was Chuck Daly’s right hand on two championship Pistons teams and the 1992 Dream Team, learned under Hubie Brown and Lenny Wilkens, and now runs Coaching U — a global coaching, leadership, and performance company reaching 140+ countries. He’s unfiltered, opinionated, and genuinely funny about what it actually takes to lead — in a locker room, a boardroom, or anywhere else. In this episode:•  Why courage is the #1 leadership trait — and why most people in leadership positions don’t have it•  The three Cs: Competence, Credibility, Connection — how players (and employees) actually decide to follow you•  Lead up, lead sideways, lead down — the assistant coach’s framework for leading from any seat•  Why championship teams keep their staffs small (the Pistons won with three coaches; the modern NBA has fourteen)•  Define roles, not just systems — what Dennis Rodman and Ben Wallace taught him•  Why your best people are business partners, not employees•  The Chuck Daly story about Joe Dumars that he never forgot — and the one lesson he’d give every coachWhether you’re running a team, building a business, or sitting one chair away from the top, Brendan’s got something for you.

What does it take to lead when you’re not the one in charge? In the debut episode of Lessons From The Sidelines, Coach Greg Brown sits down with Bob Starkey — associate head coach for LSU women’s basketball and one of the most respected lifelong assistants in the game — for a candid conversation about leading from the middle.Over four-plus decades alongside Hall of Famers like Dale Brown, Sue Gunter, and Kim Mulkey, Bob has built a career on a rare idea: that the best leaders aren’t always the ones with their name on the door. He and Greg get into the hard conversations most leaders avoid, why he attaches his emotions to the process instead of the result, how he builds a staff the way he’d recruit a team, and the difference between coaching a team and running a program.