He was the keynote speaker for my broker dealer and was speaking to 4000+ financial advisors and he is amazing and it's really fascinating listening to his leadership style. Here's a couple of take aways:
- Be a transformational leader, not a transactional leader. Transactional leaders focus on the result ie "the win". Tranformational leaders try to help the people they are managing be the best they can be within the framework of the team.
- There is no I in team, but their is an I in wIn.....if all players aren't doing their job individually, the team's success is lessened.
- Life is hard, be grateful for the hard parts and the good parts.
- He had 18 questions he'd ask HS players and was looking for kids who were self motivated.
- You have hundreds of decisions in your life every day, but they come down to two. There are things you know you need to do and can you decide to do them even though you don't want to do it. And the other is things you know you shouldn't do and are you able to not do it, even though you want to do it.
- He wanted to be a head coach and was up for the Kent State job, didn't get it and thought he'd never be a head coach. But looking back, winning at Kent State is very very difficult. Be grateful for some of the things you wanted to happen and didn't.....that may turn out much better.
