Leadership

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

Friday, July 3, 2009

"Cultivate Consistency"

Ok, so this is one of my favorite, as well as one of the most challenging chapters. I'm going to put the quote and the question together again this week...

"The hallmark of successful leadership is consistently maximum performance. Emotionalism opens a leader to inconsistency. Seek intensity coupled with emotional discipline." (p. 109) Coach Wooden later goes on to say, "I insisted on that same control and intensity during practice - especially practice." (p. 113)

As leaders those around you will look to and follow your example. Whether your path is smooth or littered with seemingly insurmountable obstacles strive to maintain a consistent and controlled intensity and perform at the highest level you are capable of.

Question... We all have been on or know of teams that have won games they should have lost and teams that have lost games they should have won... what would you say is the usually the cause of this let down and how can it be avoided?

Strive for excellence... Always

Chris

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Student Leaders Of JICHS

You have been chosen to serve in a capacity of leadership. This is both an honor and a responsibility. We hope you will take pride in the positions you have earned, and we want to help you realize your highest level of leadership potential. It is not our intention for this to be a rigorous or demanding course of your time and energy, but we do want to expose you to what real and genuine leadership is all about. We want to be an open door for your questions and an example you can follow. We say this not with an air of self righteousness or haughty pride, but with the humility that is tied to one whose every move is scrutinized (just as yours will be by your peers). We (all of us - you included) will fall, we will fail, but without trials and challenges can we have success or victory? To have the courage to face difficulty and the humility to accept responsibility, this is the foundation of leadership, and this is the mentality we ask you to have and seek to help you develop.
-Chris Lightfoot