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John Wooden Lessons on leadership

Winning Lessons

Legendary UCLA basketball coach who Lessons from Coach John Wooden’s Ted Talk: The Difference between Winning and Succeeding.

1. We are all average in some areas, and there is no fault to be assigned or shame in this. “They thought a C was all right for the neighbors’ children, because the neighbors children are all average. But they weren’t satisfied when their own — would make the teacher feel that they had failed, or the youngster had failed. And that’s not right.”
2. Be the best version of YOU. “Never try to be better than someone else, always learn from others. Never cease trying to be the best you can be — that’s under your control. If you get too engrossed and involved and concerned in regard to the things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you have control.”
3. Success is not about the outcome rather it is about the journey. “Success: peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you’re capable.”
4. Nothing is instant. “And I say to you, in whatever you’re doing, you must be patient.”
5. Past performance is irrelevant to future success. “The shining trophies on our shelves can never win tomorrow’s game.”
6. Respect time. “Never be late. We start on time. We close on time.”
7. Unless you are the coach, do not comment on the performance of an athlete. “Never criticize a teammate. I didn’t want that. I used to tell them I was paid to do that. That’s my job. I’m paid to do it.”
8. There is a difference between belief and hope. “I believe that we must believe, truly believe. Not just give it word service; believe that things will work out as they should, providing we do what we should. I think our tendency is to hope that things will turn out the way we want them to much of the time. But we don’t do the things that are necessary to make those things become reality.”
9. In the last analysis, it’s all about doing your best. “Don’t whine. Don’t complain. Don’t make excuses. Just get out there, and whatever you’re doing, do it to the best of your ability. And no one can do more than that.”
10. Winning is irrelevant; don’t speak of it. “You never heard me mention winning. Never mention winning. My idea is that you can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you’re outscored.”
11. A good sport behaves consistently whether the game is won or lost. “I used to say that when a game is over, and you see somebody that didn’t know the outcome, I hope they couldn’t tell by your actions whether you outscored an opponent or the opponent outscored you.”
12. The lesson for the athlete in competition is for them to measure their effort to being the best they can be. “It’s getting the players to get that self-satisfaction, in knowing that they’d made the effort to do the best of which they are capable.”
13. Practice is where the work happens; the game is just a measure of the effectiveness of the work that week. “I liked our practices to be the journey, and the game would be the end. The end result. I’d like to go up and sit in the stands and watch the players play, and see whether I’d done a decent job during the week.”
14. While your best effort may not yield the results you wanted, that’s okay because the purpose is to give your best effort regardless of the outcome. “That’s what really matters: if you make effort to do the best you can regularly, the results will be about what they should be. Not necessary to what you would want them to be, but they will be about what they should, and only you will know whether you can do that.”
15. Successful players are not necessarily the stars, but rather those who develop their skills to their maximum capacity. “They [Conrad Burke and John MacIntosh] came close to — as close to reaching possibly their full potential as any players I ever had. So I consider them to be as successful as Lewis Alcindor or Bill Walton, or many of the others that we had.”

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Words of wisdom.....Stephen R Covey

Stephen Richards Covey words of wisdom:

Live by principles or natural laws rather than going along with today’s culture of quick fix. Timeless principles are fairness, honesty, kindness, respect, service, integrity and contribution.

Body is a natural system. It is governed by natural law. No amount of positive mental attitude could get around the literal limits of muscle conditioning.

Values are social norms – they are personal, emotional, subjective and arguable. Principles are impersonal factual, objective and self-evident. Consequences are governed by principles and behavior is governed by values; therefore value principles.

There is a “law of harvest” that governs character, all human greatness and all human relationships. It stands contrast to our culture of quick –fix, victimism and blame.

Common sense is not common practice.

You cannot think or live independently in an interdependent world.

We are a product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. 

Hitler’s vision, discipline and passion was driven by ego. Gandhi’s vision, discipline and passion was driven by conscience.

Discipline is will power embodied.

Online the disciplined are truly free. Undisciplined are slaves to mood, appetites and perversion.

Form the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.

Leadership is communicating peoples worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.

Philosophy of influence is called: ethos: means your ethical nature, your personal credibility, the amount of trust or confidence others have in your integrity and competency. Pathos is empathy; Logos basically stands for logic.

Relish the “little” assignment or “chore” that no one else wants! Seek it out! It’s a license for self empowerment whether it is the redesign of a form or planning a weekend client retreat—you can turn it into something grand and glorious and wows.

90% of all leadership failure is character failures 

In an interview for a medical school a person asked whom e would prefer: an honest surgeon who was incompetent, or a competent surgeon who was dishonest. He reflected and said: “It all depends on the issue. If I needed the surgery I ‘d go for the competent person. If is was a question of whether to have the surgery or not, I would go for he honest one.” 

Character and competence makes a good leader.

Source: The 8thHabit, Stephen R Covey, Free Press New York 2001

Leadesrship Lessons

YOGESH AGRAWAL

Ajanta Pharma 

Q. Your best teacher in business 

A. The best teacher in business, as in life, is various situations. A company’s CEO has to face unique challenges for which no business school can get him ready. Over the years, I have learnt to analyse a situation, formulate a strategy and implement it correctly to obtain the desired outcome.

Q. One management lesson for young people 

A. One must have a passion for understanding a subject. Often I see youngsters doing what they are being told without understanding the reason. For me, understanding the ‘why’ matters most. When you understand the ‘why’, you can come up with a better solution. If fundamentals and subject knowledge are strong, one can make significant advancements and the journey becomes joyful.

Q. Two essential qualities a leader must have 

A. A leader must be able to see the path forward and should have the ability to build passion among his team members to align them with his vision. And a great leader should be able to make decisions dispassionately, without any bias.

Source Business Today 9 September, 2018 p.124

Qualities of a leader

Qualities of a leader ……Wisdom from Paul A Volcker :

An instinctive understanding of the varied interest at stake;

Ability to marshal a consensus even among those from different cultures and with competing interests;

The will to exert authority when needed;

Deep Insight;

A Vision;

A combination of skill and drive to implement that vision;

Refusal to be intimidated and to back down from is fair and might.