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The Jon Gordon Podcast

5x NBA Champion Derek Fisher | Leadership, Success and Embracing Failure to Become Your Best

The Jon Gordon Podcast

Jon Gordon

Leadership, Teamwork, Success, Positiveuniversity, Jongordon, Health & Fitness, Positivity, Education, Positiveu, Happiness, Teambuilding

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode Jon Gordon talks with 5 time NBA champion and LA Sparks Head Coach, Derek Fisher. Derek's vast experience with championship teams has taught him a lot about what real success looks like as an individual and as a team member. He shares lessons he's learned along the way and the importance of embracing failure to become who you were ultimately created to be. No matter where you are in life, if you're riding the wave of success of struggling to find your way, you'll be encouraged by what Derek has to say. Speaking of encouragement, we want to encourage you to wear and share your Positivity with a STAY POSITIVE or POSITIVE WARRIOR shirt from PositiveBrands.com. There are multiple styles and colors to choose from as well as wristbands that will inspire you and others with the power of positivity! Go to PositiveBrands.com to check them out and order your positive apparel today.
Connect with Derek at www.derekfisher.com
A few quotes from this episode:
  • Being a good leader isn't about being the best player.
  • Great team members don't compete against their teammates. They contribute to winning together.
  • Success is fleeting. It's not a final destination.
  • If you want to have a winning team, you have to be a connected team.
  • Many teams that win and then don't win again, it's because they become disconnected.
  • It doesn't matter if you excel but your team loses.
  • Stop chasing everyone opinion of what success should look like for you. Chase your success.
  • You don’t think of mistakes and failures as opportunities when they are happening but God uses them to better us and help us to become who we were created to be.
  • Everybody goes through struggle. It's the struggle that makes us stronger (if we let it).
  • Success is helping others grow.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to John Gordon's Positive University podcast. My name is Daniel Decker,

0:06.0

I'm a co-host of Positive You. On today's episode, John talks with five-time

0:09.7

NBA champion and LA Sparks head coach Derek Fisher.

0:13.6

Derek's vast experience with championship teams

0:16.1

has taught him a lot about what real success looks like

0:19.2

as an individual and as a team member.

0:21.6

And in this episode he shares lessons he's learned along the way

0:24.8

and the importance of embracing failure to become who you're ultimately created to be.

0:29.3

So no matter where you are in your life,

0:31.2

if you're riding the wave of success or struggling to find

0:34.0

your way you'll be encouraged by what Derek has to say.

0:37.4

And speaking of encouragement, we want to encourage you to wear and share your positivity

0:41.6

with a stay positive or positive

0:43.6

warrior shirt from positive brands.com. There are multiple styles and

0:47.5

colors to choose from as well as wristbands that will inspire you and others

0:51.6

with the power of positivity.

0:53.5

So go to positive brands.com to check them out and order your positive apparel today.

0:58.6

Hey I'm John Gordon with positive view, and today my guess is Derek.

1:04.2

Derek, how you doing?

1:05.4

I'm doing great, John.

1:06.4

How are you, man?

1:07.4

Doing great.

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