Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
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Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
Integrity always comes back to this point in reality where you are called to be fully present.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
“TRUST THE TELLER and you’ll trust the tale.” This quote, which I first heard from a close friend whose father used to always say it, is at the heart of this chapter on personal integrity. To me, that quote means that personal integrity is always, first and foremost, about trust and truth. To reach any level of understanding of ourselves we must ex
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What makes my teammates, coach, and I so close is that the experience of being a successful team has never left us. Who we are today has nothing to do with reliving our glory years but everything to do with the mutual understanding we continue to share about how winning takes place. Celtic Pride isn’t a diploma, it’s how to manage your life. The pr
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What Xerox accomplished through the power of invisibility was to swamp the field, to infiltrate the minds of customers and competitors alike, giving the company a huge advantage that went way beyond the actual resources and technology they had at their disposal.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
To make this even more specific: on our team, all of us—from the coach to the last guy on the bench—understood that the key shots at the end of the game were almost always going to be made by one player, Sam Jones. Every team needs a “go to” person, and Sam was ours. To win we knew we had to create the opportunity for him to take those shots . . .
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Craftsmanship is a way in to what’s best in yourself. The real mastery is always of yourself.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
Maybe we are not teaching our children how to listen because it seems to me that eighty percent of people hear while only twenty percent really listen. If this were an illness (and I do believe it is catching), it could be considered an epidemic. One of the consequences of a society that can’t or just won’t listen is a shallowness of understanding
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The ultimate danger of being victorious is losing sight of how you got there. I have often said, “It is harder to stay a champion than it was to get there in the first place.” The greatest deterrent to not repeating is always internal.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
Integrity is assuredly not an easy thing to define because it is so individual at its core, yet it is perhaps the single most essential quality needed by a leader. Integrity is about the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that go into how we make decisions, how we conduct ourselves in our day-to-day lives, who we are in the workplace and at home.