The book, "Legacy" by James Kerr covers lessons in leadership that can be learnt from the game of ruby. The book discusses how the All Blacks achieved greatness and applies some of these lessons to the world of business to help make us into better business leaders.
I have previously covered:
- Lesson 1 - Sweep the sheds
Today, I am covering the second lesson from the book.
Go for the gap
In the game of rugby, you need to do the unexpected and go where the opposition expect that you aren't going to go. The field will be marked by your opposite players trying to block your path but if you see a gap, you need to go for it.
When you are on top of your game, change your game
In the game, if you become too predictable, the opposition will learn to predict your every move. Once you are winning well because you found a successful strategy, it is time to change and think about the next strategy.
So how does this relate to the world of business?
You have probably heard of the story of Nokia. They were on the top of the game at one point being the world's leader in mobile phones. They produced the first mobile phone with a camera to enter the US market. However, they didn't change their game and innovation by Apple and later others like Samsung and HTC, nearly pushed them out of the market.
Business, like many things in the natural world, follows cycles. It is similar to society and empires. Consider the Roman or the British empires. They grew gradually from nothing. They then had enormous growth to their glory days. They then started their decline, gradual at first but eventually collapsing. This non-linear movement is called a sigmoid function and business tends to follow a similar path.
In business and sport, we start with the Learning Phase. Things are unfamiliar and we often make mistakes. We then find the Growth Phase where we become efficient and effective at what we do. We get rich, we are rewarded, people sing our praises. We are at the top of the world, and then the Decline Phase starts.
So how to avoid it?
When you are on top of your game, change your game
When you are doing well in business - don't stay static. Look for the next best thing. Try to innovate or diversify. "Go for the gap". Don't become arrogant that you are at the top and the best. You are at the top of the curve and the direction is down. Go for the gap.
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Certainly in the game of rugby there are great approaches on how to consolidate teamwork, within the successful strategies of the game of rugby is the continuous change of movements, I estimate that this applies as input for business leaders, who in order not to stagnate must be in continuous movement of strategies. Good post.
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HI @lupafilotaxia - Thanks for your comment my friend. There are some interesting analogies between sport and business. Continuous change is a good one in rugby where you need an element of unpredictability. In business, we need to find ways to be different otherwise we get smothered by the big corporates.
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As a saying goes: to get different results you need to do different things.
The path to leadership is complicated and requires a very good positive mindset, surrounding yourself with the right people and doing the right things.
It is also important to have a tutor or a guide who can tell us when we are making mistakes to be able to straighten out what we are doing in a bad way and they will also tell us what is the most effective way to achieve our goal quickly.
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This is so true and we do need to think about how we can change things to get better results. Having a tutor as you suggest can be a good way of guiding us. It also provides a fresh perspective on things.
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Hola, se relaciona bastante con los negocios, es muy cierto, buen post.
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Hola @samevyp - thank you for your comment. There are some good analogies between train teams in sport and training teams in business.
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Hi @awah I really liked your proposal, I had no knowledge about how interesting this game is and all that we can learn from it in relation to leadership, but especially the moral of the change of strategy when we reach the top seems to me that we have to consider it very well especially those who are engaged in business ... thanks for sharing !
hi @yossaeluz - thank you for your kind comment. It is an interesting analogy isn't it? We just need to keep agile if we want to stay at the top rather than be static and take it for granted.
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Hello friend, that is an important point, people believe that getting to the top is to stay forever and the reality is that anyone can displace you, if you are in business you must live creating and innovating if you want to stay in the competition, otherwise you will be displaced by other great entrepreneurs. Greetings!
hi @franyeligonzalez - we should never stop moving in business and just take things for granted. Thanks for your kind comment my friend. Please enjoy a glass of !wine on me.
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