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So, I have just finished reading this book and I honestly must buy a hardcopy of it. It is profound. It is amazing! You can't put it down..... it is so so good. Anyway, let me do a summary of the 15 lessons in the comments. https://twitter.com/SheilahBirgen/status/1351086176476782592
1) Character- begins with humility and discipline. Even after a major win, the All Blacks finish their celebrations and Sweep the Sheds coz nobody is too big to do the small things. They learn more in a loss than win. Nobody is bigger than the team. Character triumphs over talent
2) Adapt — Go for the gap — when u're on top of your game, change your game. 4steps to drive change: provide a pic of the future, sustain capability to change , create a credible plan and execute. Culture is subject to learning, growth, and decline. Have continuous improvement.
3) Purpose — Play/work with a purpose and always ‘ASK WHY?’ Understand the purpose for which you are doing something. They believe better people make better All Blacks. Leaders connect personal meaning to a higher purpose to create beliefs and a sense of direction. Find the why.
4) Responsibility — Be a leader, not a follower — pass the ball. Create a structure of meaning, a sense of purpose, belonging, teamwork and personal reasonability. Empower individuals. Leaders create leaders by passing responsibility, creating ownership, accountability, and trust
5) Learn — Create a learning environment. Leaders are teachers. As a leader, ensure you encourage and teach mastery. Find things that can be done just 1% better, you will achieve marginal gain which will create an incremental and cumulative advantage in performance and results.
6) The All Blacks have a policy ‘No Dickheads allowed’ which means ego is not allowed in the team. Everyone works together towards the same goal. No one left behind. The strength of the wolf is the pack, the strength of the pack is the wolf. Everyone in the team is the team.
7) Expectations — Embrace Expectations — aim for the highest cloud if you fail, you will fall in the highest mountain. It forces you to prepare as hard as possible. Successful leaders have high internal benchmarks, they set their expectations high, and try to always exceed them.
8) Preparation — Train to win, practice under pressure. Practice with intensity to dev the mindset to win. Intensified training in preparation to win will condition the brain and body to perform under pressure and make peak performance automatic. Develop the mindset of winning.
9) Pressure — 1st stage of learning is silence; the 2nd stage is listening. Know how to manage, deal and embrace pressure. Control your attention. Switch from ‘Red head’: result-oriented, anxious, aggressive, desperate; to ‘blue head’: expressive, calm.
Bad decisions are made because of an inability to handle pressure at the pivotal moment.
10) Be Authentic — Know thyself, keep it real. If you succumb to peer pressure and do things because others want you, you will be cut-off. Leaders need to create an environment that encourages safe-conflict, honesty, and integrity, in which people genuinely know one another.
11) Sacrifice — Find something you would die for and give your life to. Champions do Extra. Bleed on the field and know that your teammates will do the same for you. Be the first to arrive at the gym, be the last to leave. Push yourself outside of your comfort zone.
12) Language — Let your ears listen. Invent a language — sing your world into existence. A language, vocabulary and a set of believes that bind the group together. Meaning, rituals, stories, heroes all bound together. An oral culture — a common story. Leaders are storytellers.
13)Ritualize to Actualize. Create a culture of continually growing& chaining. Identity &purpose need to evolve & update. Good leaders establish rituals to connect their team to its core narrative, using them to reflect, remind, reinforce and reignite collective identity& purpose
14) Be a Good Ancestor. True leaders take responsibility adding to the future. Ensure knowledge transfer. Leave the jersey in a better place. Know that you are standing on the shoulders of giants — live up to that expectation and know that you will be looked upon as one.
15) Legacy — Write your Legacy. This is your time. Be purposeful. Add to the ethos, make your mark.
Finished listening to Legacy by James Kerr. Try #Audible and get it free: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B00FK6MVTW?source_code=AUKORWS071615904J
