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You often hear this expression in the sports arena: “Those players are willing to run through a wall for their coach.”

You see it in senior leaders who refuse to hire or promote superstar executives who might outshine them and threaten their agenda. You see it in middle managers who obsess about political posturing and throwing their rivals under the bus.

In professional sports, it’s called “losing the locker room.” It’s that moment where players lose confidence in their coach. They no longer buy what he’s selling because he has failed to deliver on the expectations he brought to the organization when he first arrived.

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. epitomizes what it means to lead by faith.

If your leadership team is mulling over a strategy that could significantly impact certain employees, at what point in the decision-making process should you bring those employees into the loop?

When it comes to corporate values, many companies place integrity at the top.

In 1959, a forty-five-year-old Vince Lombardi was hired as head coach and general manager of the Green Bay Packers. It was his first NFL head coaching job, and he had a daunting task before him: How do you turn around a franchise that had not produced a winning season in over a decade?

The legendary basketball coach John Wooden put it best in his book “Wooden on Leadership,” where he wrote: “A volatile leader is like a bottle of nitroglycerine: The slightest knock and it blows up. Those around nitroglycerine or a temperamental boss spend all their time carefully tiptoeing back and forth rather than doing their jobs. It is not an environment, in my opinion, conducive to a winning organization.”

If you follow professional sports, you’ve heard the saying: “Winning covers over a multitude of sins.”

“It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.” That’s one of the Navy SEAL mottos that former SEAL, and now bestselling author, Jocko Willink shares in his book, “Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.”