The Season Is Won in the Weeks Nobody’s Watching

by Krystal Gail | Aug 24, 2026 | Newsletter

For my first three years of high school football, we won two games. Total. Three years. Then came senior year. Before the season even started, our coaches took us away to camp — three workouts a day, out in the heat, nowhere to hide from it. When we got back to...

Adaptability Is a Choice

by Krystal Gail | Aug 24, 2026 | Reflections

Adaptability Week has reminded us that effective leadership requires both conviction and flexibility. We need the conviction to hold onto our values, integrity, purpose, and mission. At the same time, we need the flexibility to reconsider our assumptions, methods,...

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor Frankl

by Krystal Gail | Aug 24, 2026 | Reflections

The Courage to Change Ourselves What if the greatest challenge of adapting to change isn’t changing what’s around us—but being willing to change ourselves? Throughout this week, we’ve looked at adaptability from a number of different perspectives....

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
— Eric Hoffer

by Krystal Gail | Aug 24, 2026 | Reflections

Experience Should Inform, Not Imprison Has your wealth of experience ever prevented you from recognizing when it was time to change your approach? Experience is one of our greatest assets. It gives us knowledge, judgment, confidence, and a library of lessons we can...

“Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn’t mean treating everyone alike.”
— John Wooden

by Krystal Gail | Aug 24, 2026 | Reflections

Fair Does Not Mean the Same Have you ever believed that being fair meant treating everyone exactly the same? Fairness and consistency are essential to good leadership. But somewhere along the way, many of us begin to equate consistency with sameness. If people have...