Book Notes from 'You Win in the Locker Room First' by Jon Gordon and Mike Smith
Consistent
- If you are not consistent you
will lose the trust your team has in you.
- When you lose trust you lose
the locker room.
- Consistency Wins the Locker
Room
- As a leader you must be
consistent in your leadership style, approach, attitude, philosophy and
tactics.
- If you are not consistent
throughout the year you will lose your team's trust, and as soon as that
happens, you lose the locker room and in turn lose games.
- The key is to be who you are
and coach the way you do all year long no matter what your win-loss
record is.
- Your team must know what to
expect from you.
- They must see that you stick
to your principles and philosophy through adversity and challenges.
- Consistency Wins in the Long
Run
- Pete Carroll advice
- 'My greatest challenge
right now is to be consistent myself. I must be the same guy all the
time. I must be relentless in my pursuit of being consistent. I must
discipline myself to be fully present so I can be in the moment with
each and every person or player. Then we have a chance to maximize the
moment together. My challenge is to be so consistent and optimistic,
that every person in the organization feels that tomorrow will be better
than today and we expect it to be.'
- It's Not OK to be Moody
- I told them that it was
important for them to be consistent.
- I challenged them to be
positively contagious
- I told them point blank that
it's not okay to be moody
- When you are moody, people
around you don’t know what to expect from you and this causes them to
lose trust in you
- To build a winning team, you
want to be consistent in your attitude, effort and actions.
- Be Consistent in Your Desire
to Be Great
- The greatest players I have
coached have a consistent desire to be great.
- Your desire is measured by
your routine and preparation.
- Ray Lewis : his daily,
weekly and yearly preparation was so detailed.
- His commitment to the
process was unmatched by any other player.
- Following the routine and
being consistent in your preparation.
- Jack knew that if you
wanted to be great, you had to have a consistent routine that prepared
you to be great.
- Complacency is a Disease
- Every team and organization
must guard against the disease of complacency.
- The leader of the
organization not allow the seeds of complacency to germinate within the
team.
- You become complacent when
team members start to believe that their prior successes are going to
ensure that they will have success in the future.
- I should have done what I
had done in previous years.
- Create more urgency
- Focus on our desire to be
great
- Identify what we need to do
to improve
- Focus on the process not
the outcome.
- Complacency has led to the
demise of many teams and organizations
- Companies because they were
not looking forward and instead rested on their laurels while their
competition was doing everything in their power to overtake them
- Identify how you are going
to make sure that you are going to innovate and improve the future.
- What you do want is
consistent improvement, consistent coaching and a consistent desire to be
great.
- Consistently Improving
- Even the best coaches and
teams can make the mistake of focusing on the past instead of creating
the future.
- Each year the best recommit
themselves to being better than they were the year before.
- It's a commitment that the
best of the best make every week, every day, every hour and every moment.
- Humble and Hungry
- Two words that characterize
a team that is always improving and growing are 'humble' and 'hungry'
- Humble
- Don’t think you know it all
- See everyone as teachers
and learn from everyone
- Be open to new ideas and
strategies
- When people tell you that
you are great - don’t let it go to your head
- Live with humility
- Remember that today's
headlines are tomorrow's fish wrap
- Hungry
- Seek out new ideas, new
strategies, new ways to push yourself.
- Be willing to pay the price
that greatness requires.
- Become the hardest working
team that you know.
- Love the process
- Make your life and work a
quest for excellence
- Don’t rest on your laurels
- make your next work your best work.
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