E28 - Sir Clive Woodward: How to conquer the world with non-negotiables
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Sir Clive Woodward is the head coach who led England’s rugby players to World Cup glory in Australia in 2003. A former England International and British & Irish Lion himself, prior to his full time coaching career Clive established a successful business career working for nine years with Xerox.
During Clive’s tenure as Head Coach England moved from 6th in the world to being the number one ranked team, winning every trophy an England team can win.
In 2006 Clive Woodward joined the British Olympic Association. As Team GB’s Director of Sport he worked in close partnership with key stakeholders in British Sport to support the national coaches and athletes at the Beijing & Vancouver Olympics as well as deliver Team GB’s most successful Olympic Games in the modern era at London 2012.
Clive is currently the Founder and Chairman of Hive Learning – an app which has digitised Clive’s coaching methods and is designed to improve the quality of learning in business and sport.
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| 0:13.7 | I am neurotic about time, you know, I'm never late for anybody, ever. |
| 0:18.0 | So I made this big conversation with the player, so I set the whole scene and I said, |
| 0:21.7 | you know, I can see Johnson looking at me, so you know, where's this going. |
| 0:24.9 | I said, well, I'm going to leave the room now, what you just got's time. |
| 0:27.6 | Because I don't want to stand it for next eight years going, guys, don't be late. |
| 0:30.6 | So that he came back to me, said time, ten minutes early, and then we think of a name. |
| 0:34.2 | We called it Lombardi time. Just me, any in the rugby player has got Lombardi time. |
| 0:37.6 | No good ten minutes early. |
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