Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 12 | Issue 609 |
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"REPLACE FEAR WITH INITIATIVE" (LIZ WISEMAN) Liz Wiseman is a bestselling author, researcher, and elite leadership coach. In her New York Times bestseller, Multipliers: she researched over 150 leaders worldwide. In her book she identifies a quality that great leaders have in common with John Wooden: They create an environment where team members are eager to take initiative and are not afraid to make mistakes.
Coach Wooden said: "The people who don’t make mistakes are the people who don’t do anything."
In his book Wooden On Leadership with Steve Jamison, Coach describes how this attitude applies to leadership and business:
"A basketball team that won’t risk mistakes will not outscore opponents. The same is true for any organization. Fouls, errors, and mistakes are part of the competitive process in sports, business, and elsewhere. Don’t live in fear of making a mistake."
In fact, Coach Wooden learned this very important lesson from his college coach, Piggy Lambert at Purdue, who summed it up like this: "The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins." "The kind of mistakes he was referring to are not the result of carelessness or sloppiness, but the result of assertive action based on proper assessment of risk."
Coach sums it up this way:
"Mistakes come from doing, but so does success. The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that's a very big mistake."
Do you create an environment of fear or initiative?
Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman
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