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All Blacks Leadership Insights by Kerr

The document summarizes the key lessons that can be learned from the leadership and culture of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team. It discusses 15 lessons, including the importance of character, adaptability, purpose, responsibility, learning, teamwork, high expectations, preparation, handling pressure, authenticity, sacrifice, language, rituals, legacy, and planting trees for future generations. The All Blacks have developed an extraordinary high-performance culture through embracing these principles, which provides an effective model for leaders in other fields to achieve exceptional and sustained success.

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All Blacks Leadership Insights by Kerr

The document summarizes the key lessons that can be learned from the leadership and culture of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team. It discusses 15 lessons, including the importance of character, adaptability, purpose, responsibility, learning, teamwork, high expectations, preparation, handling pressure, authenticity, sacrifice, language, rituals, legacy, and planting trees for future generations. The All Blacks have developed an extraordinary high-performance culture through embracing these principles, which provides an effective model for leaders in other fields to achieve exceptional and sustained success.

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  • Legacy: 15 Lessons in Leadership: This section provides an overview of leadership lessons derived from the methods of the All Blacks rugby team, emphasizing personal development, leadership qualities, and cultural influence within organizations.

Legacy: 15 Lessons in Leadership

What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life

Book’s Argument: The methods of the All Blacks rugby team have
developed an extraordinary high-performance culture and provide an
inspiring and effective model for leaders in other fields.
Key Takeaways:
Character – never be too big to do the small things that need to be done.
Character begins with humility. Performance = Capability + Behavior. A values-
based, purpose-driven culture is a foundation of the All Blacks’ approach and
sustained success.
Adapt – when you’re on top of your game, change your game. Make a case for
change, provide a compelling picture of the future, sustain the capability to change,
and create a credible plan to execute.
Purpose – ask ‘Why?’ Create an environment that stimulates others and influences
them to want to take part in it.
Responsibility – leaders create leaders by passing on responsibility, creating
ownership, accountability and trust.
Learn – leaders are teachers and learners. Create an environment that delivers the
opportunity for personal growth and professional development.
Whanau – follow the spearhead. A flock of birds flying in formation is 70 percent
more efficient than flying solo. One of the first steps in developing a high performance
culture is to select on character.
Expectations – aim for the highest cloud. We learn best – and change – from hearing
aspirational stories that resonate with us.
Preparation – practice under pressure to enable self-trust and enable the abilities to
maintain clarity, situational awareness, accurate analysis, and good decision-making.
Pressure – control your attention. Bad decisions are not made through a lack of skill
or innate judgment. They are made because of an inability to handle pressure at the
pivotal moment.
Authenticity – keep it real through a strong identity and trust in the sense of safe
vulnerability while exercising honesty and integrity.
Sacrifice – find something you would die for and giver your life to it.
Language – sing your world into existence. We are meaning making machines,
interpreting and reinterpreting a sequence of events into a narrative form and
reassembling at will.
Ritual – create a culture. Ritualize to actualize by telling your story, involving your
people, and creating a legacy while making the intangible real.
Whakapapa – plant trees you’ll never see by being a good ancestor.
Legacy – this is your time to make a purposeful contribution.
Best Quotes: “A collection of talented individuals without personal discipline will
ultimately and inevitably fail. Character triumphs over talent.” “A sense of inclusion
means individuals are more willing to give themselves to a common cause.” “The first
stage of learning is silence, the second stage is listening.” “High-performing teams
promote a culture of honesty, authenticity and safe conflict.” “If we’re going to lead a
life, if we’re going to lead anything, we should surely know where we are going, and
why.” – Kerr “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because
your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others
think you are.” – John Wooden
Why it’s important: Culture change and engagement are mechanisms for, and
impediments of, exceptional success in our organization and personal lives.

James Kerr (2013)

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