301: James Kerr - How To Create An Ethos Of Excellence (Legacy)

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

Business, Management, Careers

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🗓️ 10 March 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Episode #301 with James Kerr

Full show notes can be found at www.LearningLeader.com

Commonalities of sustaining excellence:
- Humility - An ego-less approach. "Serve to lead" mentality
- Curiosity - Following passion
- Value Excellence - Focus on doing the small things right
- These are transferable principles to any organziation
The "All Blacks" rugby team "are our Gods in New Zealand."
- They've won just under 80% of their games in history
- Scored twice as many points as their competitors
- The most successful sports team of all time
Sustained high performance
- Mana = The God within. The spirit... The ethos that creates excellence decade after decade
Surprises? "The softness in this hard game. A love, a brotherhood, connection, meaning, caring for one another."
How have they sustained excellence?
- Tradition
- Starts at the top with the leaders
- Breaking down old orthodox
- Like the British SAS - "Rank but no class"
- Leadership group -- It's not just one coach. Everyone's ideas are valued.
It's a player led team - "Positive power of peer pressure." That feeling of not wanting to let one of your teammates down
- "You fight more for the person in the foxhole next to you."
- The Spartan sword and shield. You can lose you sword, but you can never lose your shield. That helps protect your brother.
Accountability - There is leadership at every level
- It empowers the individual in a project bigger than themselves
- How does this work in business?
  - Helps them step up, take ownership, be responsible
"A leader is responsible for the result. Good or bad."

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0:00.0	There are very few good definitions of what a leader really is or there are many many
0:04.4	definitions what a leader really is but one of my favorites is that a leader is
0:11.0	responsible for the result, whatever that result is.
0:15.0	And that sense of personal responsibility in ownership and accountability for that result,
0:20.0	whichever way it goes, you know, responsible if there's a win, but also equally responsible
0:24.8	if things don't go to plan.
0:27.1	And ownership and accountability and taking it on the chin, I think is really fundamental and they're
0:31.6	all kind of embroiled in that same not of
0:34.9	team and connection and authentic accountability.
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