Join us on a transformative journey as we explore the keys to unlocking exceptional team success with Ed Molitor, former NCAA basketball coach, and corporate executive. In this insightful episode, we discuss creativity within constraints, the power of embracing your role for collective success, and the importance of trusting the process. Delve into aiming at objectives, seeing new vantage points, reframing circumstances, and learning how to face adversity head-on. We also examine what sets great leaders apart and the significance of a shared vision for winning.

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Episode 2 Quotable moments:

• 21:33 “The ability to look at things differently. Because when we're in the middle of the moment and we've got blinders on, but we have this focus, we have a tendency to see things just as we think they are. But if we can step back and be curious about, well, if I look at it from this vantage point, what if, okay, if someone says something to you and you execute the yes, and.

• 22:54: ”It's not about reducing stress, we spend so much time focused on reducing stress. The only way you grow is through discomfort and disorder. So how do we make order out of the chaos inside a stressful situation? We have to increase our capacity to manage that stress. And to grow through those stressful situations and navigate it. That’s what resilient leaders do.”

• 23:28 “I firmly believe that problems are something that we don't know how to solve. And what a problem really is, is a creative opportunity, it's a creative opportunity for ourself and for our team to collaborate and share ideas.”

• 27:07 “You're a part of something bigger than yourself. And do you embrace your role and, not only embrace your role, that doesn't mean accept it. Like everyone says, oh, you better accept your role. No, don't accept it. Like, if this is what the team needs me to do right now, this is what I'm gonna do.”

• 32:58 “Like what is our singleness of purpose that we have every single day, and do we talk about it? Is that a conversation that we have? Or, are we living in a created environment where we're afraid to talk about it? Like we don't want to put ourselves out there. But your objectives have to be a shared vision.”

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