Success Leaves Clues: Nick Saban’s Leadership Lesson #9
This week is Nick Saban’s Leadership Lesson #9 Sometimes what is best for the individual is not what is best for the team. The goal of a leader is to align-self & team interests in as many opportunities as humanly possible. However, sometimes it’s not. When this happens, the dichotomy of leadership holds true for […]
Success Leaves Clues: Nick Saban’s Leadership Lesson #8
This week is Nick Saban’s Leadership Lesson #8 You must trust, not just believe. Belief is trust that is firm. Are you willing to put your success in someone else’s hands? Trust is hard to come by. But it’s the foundation of strong teams. Without trust, a team cannot be effective. How to earn trust? […]
Success Leaves Clues: Nick Saban’s Leadership Lesson #7
This week is Nick Saban’s Leadership Lesson #7 Having skill is not having talent. Brilliant! Coach Saban says, “Skill alone does not equate to talent. Talent is putting skills into productive use.”
Success Leaves Clues: Nick Saban’s Leadership Lesson #6
This week is Nick Saban’s Leadership Lesson #6 Do not allow mistakes to go uncorrected. You must evaluate the previous game and ensure mistakes are corrected for the upcoming game. This is the value of having a feedback culture. No, it’s not easy giving candid feedback to your team especially in pointing out opportunities to […]
Success Leaves Clues: Nick Saban’s Leadership Lesson #5
This week is Nick Saban’s Leadership Lesson #5 You can have no flickering lights. The torch must be fully lit when passed from the upperclassmen to the underclassmen. This mindset and standard shows the importance of your whole team being bought into and having a deep understanding of your mission, vision, and values. While team […]
Success Leaves Clues: Nick Saban’s Leadership Lesson #3
This week is Nick Saban’s Leadership Lesson #3 Get out of yourself and into the team. Coach Saban wants his players to rise above their own selfishness and ambitions and dissolve themselves into the team. In the study of human nature, humans default to acting in their own self-interest. This is a bi-product of evolution. […]
Success Leaves Clues: Nick Saban’s Leadership Lesson #2
Success leaves clues. Like within our franchise system, most times there’s not a need to reinvent the wheel. Instead, look for success at the highest of levels and model it. That’s the formula I have used for any success I have achieved to date. And one that I encourage you to do the same. Recently, […]
Success Leaves Clues: Nick Saban’s Leadership Lessons
Success leaves clues. Like within our franchise system, most times there’s not a need to reinvent the wheel. Instead, look for success at the highest levels and model it. That’s the formula I have used for any success I have achieved to date. And one that I encourage you to do the same. Recently, Steven […]
Leadership is influence. Nothing more or less.
Last week I had one of my followers on the Gram tell me I was an idiot on a post I made about citing Adolf Hitler’s strong leadership skills. He went on to tell me how Hitler was a horrible person so couldn’t be a good leader. Stating that he didn’t get any electoral votes […]
The 5 C’s of the leadership framework is Consistency.
The 5 C’s of the leadership framework is Consistency. As its essence, Consistency is trust. And without trust, a leader is ineffective and the team & mission break down. The cold hard truth. So if you want to separate yourself, begin cleaning up your consistency. Email on a schedule. Meet on a schedule Work out on […]