Learning How to Be More Aware
When you think of a “perfect leader,” what comes to mind? Who comes to mind?
You might picture someone who never lets their temper get out of control, no matter what problems they’re facing. You might think of someone who has the complete trust of their staff, always speaks kindly, listens to their team, is easy to talk to and always makes careful, informed decisions.
These are qualities of someone with a high degree of emotional intelligence or EI. Wikipedia gives us this for EI:
Emotional Intelligence (EI) describes the ability, capacity, skill or, in the case of the trait EI model, a self-perceived ability, to identify, assess, and manage the emotions of one’s self, of others, and of groups.[1] Different models have been proposed for the definition of EI and disagreement exists as to how the term should be used.[2] Despite these disagreements, which are often highly technical, the ability EI and trait EI models (but not the mixed models) enjoy support in the literature and have successful applications in different domains.
In this article, they look at why emotional intelligence is so important for leaders – and how you, as a leader, can improve yours. In our highly charged and emotional professional setting – EI can be critical to success.
Follow the below link for the complete article.
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Leadership:
The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richie Adubato was the master at this. My time with him in New York and Washington taught me so much about dealing with people. It is truly a gift. He was able to adapt to any personality and use his sense of humor, his huge basketball acumen and his genuine niceness to empower even the toughest personalities to do what he needed them to do and think it was their idea.
I think the Leadership 501 site is a great resource for positive ideas on evaluating and building leadership.
Eisenhower quote from Leadership 501
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One of the greatest dilemmas in the coaching profession, especially for a young assistant, is self-promoting and getting noticed. Being able to make a name for your self and advancing in the profession is part of every coaches driving force.
If you are not in one of the coaching “Family Trees”… Calipari, Summitt, Pitino, Auriemma, Knight, VanDerveer, Krzyzewski, Stringer, Calhoun, etc… How do you get noticed to even get a call back, let alone an interview for the next opportunity? The same can be said of the first time head coach once they get there, how do they get noticed at a non-BCS school? it’s almost a never-ending cycle. Unless you set your mind right and keep it right, even after you have some success, it can be a never-ending struggle. Give your head coach complete trust and loyalty – unconditionally. Trust your head coach’s loyalty back to you, their respect to your development and the continuation of our profession.
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Not SportsCenter… IDEAS.
Watching San Antonio vs. Washington.
Saw a nice inverted High Split used as a pressure release for PTG: Used with good passing center (Duncan), with Back Door action into inverted High Split.
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Who didn’t see this coming? I don’t want to sound like a know-it-all, so I won’t say I did.
The coffee house’s, the corner bar, the chat rooms all asked… Why would the Grizzlies take this chance? Everyone says they knew this would happen. Not so fast.
Allen Iverson
From this…
Then…
To…
Now the end game…
There’s a simple answer… you know “The Answer,”… what other 10-Time All-Star, former MVP was available for a struggling team at a bargain price. In 889 career games, Iverson has AVERAGED 27.0 ppg… 24,020 points! That, alone, is the reason. Professional teams, at least in basketball, will spend whatever they need to to get more wins. Iverson, potentially, gets you wins. If they can get what they need to get more wins, for less… Go For It! At a one-year, incentive based contract it was a no-brainer. No harm, no foul. A few million is nothing to risk for potentially 18 extra wins. Could Iverson at 34 provide 18 extra wins? He averaged 26.4 ppg in ‘07-’08, season before last at 32. With the other new players on the Grizz roster… maybe.
The Grizzlies at 22-60 in 2008-09 a potential improvement to 40-42 in 2009-10 is was worth the risk.
The NBA’s Southwest Division: San Antonia, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans and Memphis is arguably one of the leagues toughest. The trouble with a 15-game improvement is that in the Southwest Division, Memphis wouldn’t have moved up at all based on last season’s finish. They need a lot more help.
There are reports now that the New York Knicks have interest in Iverson. Why not?! New York is the Memphis of the Eastern Conference. The NBA can’t afford New York to continue to be one of the worst teams in the league. It is not healthy for the league. Remember New York BEFORE the Patrick Ewing draft pick? The league was not healthy then. The league is much healthier now, but the economy could change that rapidly if it doesn’t improve. Signing Iverson also may distract New York fans from the potential fact that the #1 overall pick might have been traded away this year. Doubtful. How would an Iverson signing impact LeBron’s thoughts of being in New York? There are major questions here.
On another thought New York already had Iverson, right…. sorry, that was Stephon Marbury. Different player, potentially the same result?
We will see where this continues or if it continues.
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