High-Performance Lifestyle
It doesn’t matter the industry or the field of play, the #1 rule vibrates throughout.
Choose a time and place, whoever or wherever, you will the see the #1 rule in action.
When we think about a leader, we think of a maker. Leaders are makers.
But every leader, first they made themselves. [Read more…]
Phil Knight, the founder of Nike and author of Shoe Dog, spoke of how he was constantly reading books about combat, war strategy, and generalship to help keep him focused during the early and turbulent days of Nike.
Many of his quests to Asia were also inspired by what he read. It was books that gave him the inspiration to stand among the ruins of Hiroshima. He stayed in the villa once occupied by General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines and was granted his request to the Republic of Vietnam to meet Vo Nguyen Giáp, their most prominent warrior of the Vietnam War. He was driven by the words of war.
Eventually, those quests to Asia opened the door for Nike’s production efforts in Japan and China and eventually Nike’s domination of the shoe game. Knight would say, Business is War. And Nike conquers all.
Which is better: a winner or a loser.
The answer is simple, a winner.
Yet, as a society, we are devaluing the idea of the winner.
We want to make everyone feel equal. We strive for equality in an environment that doesn’t reward everyone equally.
Soft minded people can push for this false premise of equality but it will never manifest.
We are programmed to always reward the winners and disregard the losers.
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The true answer is that it is both. Leaders tend to understand the artful grace of commanding a team but the metrics used to implement ideas and principles are grounded in science: observable & repeatable.
It exists in order domains — pack of wolves & pride of lions. Elephants also have a very sophisticated matriarchal understanding of leadership. The Australian steel-blue sawfly has leaders that decide on group movements.
Note: My first post here discusses how the Outwork Book Club works. The home page for the book club is here, with archives, previous books discussed, and additional book recommendations.
by Simon Sinek | Link to book
What’s more revealing is that Sinek routinely talks about his experiences with the Marines, yet he thanks the Air Force on page one of his latest book, Leaders Eat Last.
It is apparent that his message is spreading through all branches of the Military and that what he has to say about leadership matters. It is not just the Military that is taking note, organizations everywhere are starting to paying attention to what he is saying: Start With Why. [Read more…]
