Coach Ron Adams on Coaching Across the Generations

Continuing our series with Assistant Coach Ron Adams of the Golden State Warriors, Kenning Partner Daryl Ogden talks with Ron about coaching across the generations.  A collegiate and professional coach for over 50 years, Ron has seen a lot of changes, but as he tells Daryl, he’s had to adapt himself in order to “stay in the game.”

How has practice changed over the course of Ron’s career, and what does it have to do with disruptions in education?  How can music serve as a bridge between generations and how is basketball like jazz?  What role can generation markers–Boomers, X, Y, Z–play in helping you understand younger players and employees, and why are individual connections more important?  Ron and Daryl discuss these issues and more, and then Daryl and Mike Merrill apply Ron’s lessons to challenges you may face in working across generations in your own business context.