Leadership

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
-John Quincy Adams

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Success

As leaders it will be important for us to have a good definition of success that you can use as a measure for your activities through out the year.

I personally like Coach Wooden's definition on page 10: "Making the complete effort to maximize your abilities, skills, and potential in whatever circumstances - good or bad - may exist"

In the next paragraph he separates this definition of success from our present cultures definition: "Sometimes the competition you face will be bigger or stronger, more experienced or better [equipped]. Regardless of the situation you face as a leader, you must believe and teach those under your leadership that success is theirs when together you summon the will to put forth EVERYTHING you have."

So at the end of the day can you win a match and be unsuccessful? Can you lose a match and come away with your head held high? The answer to both ought to be yes if your goal is giving everything you're involved in your very best effort...

Commit to excellence. Be successful.

-Chris
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2 comments:

  1. kaseyJune 1, 2009 at 10:21 AM

    yay I'm first :)
    So there was a lot of things that jumped out at me but one of the things I really liked was when coach wooden was talking about giving effort.



    "...the score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score."



    I would like to see this attitude next year. I think too many times we want to do our best, but at practices we are not giving it our all and it's reflected in games. Yes, i believe that practices should be fun (and honestly those are some of the best practices when we are goofing off) but they need to be serious. As leaders, I think that more serious we take the practices, the more apt the team will be to take practices seriously as well.

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  2. AnonymousJune 1, 2009 at 9:49 PM

    Amanda

    When he wrote about enthusiasm this jumped out at me...

    "Work without joy is drudgery."

    I definitely think that many times being "too serious" lost us the win. Several times we forgot to stay enthusiastic while playing, that the weight of stress and constant pressure brought each team member farther and farther down to the point that you could see our performance weakened. With a new year, I hope that instead of feeling stressed and overly serious that we can instead instill enthusiasm into each team member.

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