It is 2 days after the big showdown between Brett Favre and his old team and I am still basking in the glory of his performance and leadership. For the record, I am not a huge football fan. I wasn’t even a Favre ‘fan’ until recently. It is always easy to root for someone like Favre or Jordan when they are at the height of their careers, but as soon as their greatness starts to wear off just a touch you find way too many people piling on the bandwagon that they need to hang it up and make room for the youngsters. I wholeheartedly disagree… and not because I am getting older.
Here’s the thing about GREAT leaders… they worked their asses off to be GREAT. Sure, they might have some natural talent that adds to their greatness, but no body is accidently great. Young leaders need to know this. Young leaders need to work towards this. Young leaders need to strive for this.
Monday night Brett was driven. You could see that he was determined. His new team was behind him. I had literal chills of excitement that came from the controlled leadership and the raw moxy he displayed during this big game. He wouldn’t say it directly, but you know he wanted that victory just a little more than anyone else. It was fantastic. I wanna follow people like that. Don’t you? Don’t you wanna be that guy or gal that rallies a team to do the improbable? Don’t you want to develop your leadership to the point were real, life changing things occur with the people you are leading?
Study it. Dream about it. Envision it. Work for it. Be determined to go after it. Work you ass of to be the next GREAT leader in your environment, city, profession, area of study.
Sweet. So once I have worked hard enough then I get to start skipping mandatory workouts, offseason conditioning, I may hold my company hostage, and put myself and my selfish desires above everyone else – simply because I have earned the “right.” When do I get the right to have rules and expectations not apply to me simply because I am great?
thanks for digging deep to get the meaning of the post – - – ONCE you become GREAT, let me know, I will work on coaching you to avoid some of the pitfalls of greatness.
Fair enough Russell. It’ll be a long while before I can even sniff greatness – so don’t be holding your breath.