Keywords

culture, leadership, frontline, leaders, great, blacks, business, good, team, environment, talk, people, sport, climate, called, organisations. 

Intro

Welcome to Episode 47 of the enterprise excellence podcast. Many of you know my belief that excellence in sport is not far different to business. Today's guest has studied and proven this. It is such a pleasure to have Mr James Kerr, the author of "Legacy" on the show with us today. "Legacy, What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life" is one of the best books I've ever read. James is an author, speaker, and leadership expert who helps create high-performance cultures for elite teams and organisations. Let's get into the episode. James, thank you so much for joining us today.

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Quotes

04:28min So I was really interested in that process of how you take something that's intrinsically strong. You know, clearly, even at 2004, they had the world's best sporting stat. That was about 75% of all encounters over about 110 years at that point thereabouts. You know, an incredible stat already, but not always well. And the new management led by Graham Henry, the kind of the three wise men are the Gang of Four, it's been called in different ways. This leadership group, took a long, hard look at the culture and really looked to reboot it. And you know, the results have spoken for themselves in terms of their approach. 

07:33min Again, that idea of lineage is extraordinarily powerful. And that's just sort of one of the ideas. Other things around their learning environments, their place is committed to getting better every day. They're values-based vision-led purpose-driven groups. You know, they know what they stand for, and they know what they don't, and they live those values out loud. They're focused on character. And I'm doing it again, militarily doing the right thing on a difficult day. They have clarity of vision; they know where they're going. And they've asked the deepest question of all why, why does it matter? You know, there's a purpose, purpose beyond results. 

28:48min How shall we do this? Because empowerment is people executing a plan, they've been a part of making. Really. And then and then what in mission command gets called the sort of directed telescope, you don't micromanage. You just look at some small moments here and there, you keep an eye on things, but you don't kind of get right into the micromanagement. Because otherwise, you take away all of that autonomy that you that you've created. 

Links

James Kerr
Linked in: linkedin.com/in/james-kerr-09a70bb
Email: [email protected]
Book: Legacy, 15 Lessons In Leadership - What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life.

Brad Jeavons
Brad is proud to support many Australian businesses. You can find him on LinkedIn here. If you’d like to speak to him about how he can help your business, call him on 0402 448 445, or email [email protected]. Our website is www.bradjeavons.com

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