Chris DeSantis
Equity for Winners

To paraphrase, the question was “how do you manage coaching a group of athletes where you have superstars and people who are not nearly as fast”. A worthy question and one that pretty much every coach has to answer except for a select few.

Chris DeSantis
Greg Meehan Coming into His Peak
Chris DeSantis
Volatile Confidence

For example, someone “has” confidence, or they don’t. Another person might “have” motivation, or not. When I coached in Denmark, I noted several swimmers when quitting or contemplating quitting would say they had “lost” their motivation. It was almost as if it were a set of keys they had left under a couch cushion and had given up on finding.

Chris DeSantis
Passing the Developmental Buck

Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak to a special working group at Boston Consulting Group. To say I was excited would be an understatement. At the conclusion of my talk, I got a lot of very good questions. I want to address one of them in greater depth here.

Chris DeSantis
Lost Art of Confrontation

Confrontation is a life necessity. If it wasn’t, I’d guess that most of us would hardly ever do it. Constitutionally, I think human beings are designed to be confrontation averse. That is, we are all more or less “pro-social”. Our extent as a species rely on the fact that we have found ways to cooperate with each other at a very high level.

Nicole LaVoi