Cutcliffe’s Leadership Style is Ideal for Trying Time Like This

head football coach David Cutcliffe runs out of the tunnel prior to Duke's contest with Virginia.

Cutcliffe’s Leadership Style is Ideal for Trying Time Like This

4/15/2020 4:00:00 PM | Football

This excerpt was taken from an article written by Sally Jenkins of The Washington Post on April 15, 2020.

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These are interesting times for leaders — and exposing ones. The half-cocked, the loud, the phony carpers are upstaged daily by self-effacing sorts with expertise and calm certainty, who present solutions along with the problems.

Guys like Duke football coach David Cutcliffe, who just finished a staff meeting on Zoom and isn't ashamed to confess, "I'm much better with tech than I was two weeks ago." Cutcliffe's mastery of virtual meetings is a point of pride given that he's doing his grocery shopping during the "seniors-only" hours at his local store. "You never seen shopping carts move more slowly in your life," he laughs.

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