Bring Your Own Pencil: The Leadership Lesson of Coach Bill Walsh with Griffin Brand and Dan Casey

About this episode

Griffin Brand and Dan Casey discuss leadership lessons from Coach Bill Walsh and their book, exploring themes of preparation and excellence across various fields.

Send us Fan Mail Griffin Brand and Dan Casey, co-authors of Bring Your Own Pencil: Bill Walsh’s Playbook for Winning at Anything, join Joe to explore preparation, leadership, and what separates sustained excellence from short-term success. It’s Super Bowl weekend, so football is part of the lens—but it doesn’t stay there. The discussion moves from Bill Walsh and the San Francisco 49ers to Dyson vacuums, Raising Cane’s chicken fingers, JSOC, and even 50 Cent. Different worlds, same underlying ...

People in this episode

Host: Joe Byerly

Guests: Griffin Brand, Dan Casey

Topics covered

• leadership
• preparation
• sustained excellence
• football
• business
• success

Keywords

• leadership
• Bill Walsh
• preparation
• excellence
• football
• business
• success

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: San Francisco 49ers, Dyson, Raising Cane’s, JSOC

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