If you know about the sport of basketball, then there is a good chance you know about a college player named Len Bias: The product of the University of Maryland with great skill, potential, and awesome promise. Drafted by the Boston Celtics in the '86 Draft just two days earlier, his life and career took a tragic turn when he died of heart failure stemming from a drug overdose.
Whether your passion is basketball or something else, it is something every player or future player should watch because it is a story of how success can be mishandled. The title of the film is "Without Bias", directed by Kirk Fraser. As the hall-of-fame Georgetown basketball coach Chuck Thompson said, there are not many stories of success in today's culture, so it is important to make the right choices in life, how they affect those around you, and why.
I am taking on more responsibility in my new occupation, and leadership isn't too far from my mind. No one hears about the right choices made in the business world, just the poor or ill-advised ones (see Lehman Bros., Bear Stearnes, Martha Stewart, etc). The right choice may not be the smart one, in terms of economic value, but there are things in this life that are worth more than dollar bills in your wallet or points on a scoreboard.I recommend you see Kirk Fraser's film; I hope you will take something tangible from it. There are a series of articles form the Washington Post website about the Len Bias story here...
