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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Ray Anderson: Arizona State University Athletic Director | #ThePlaybook 130

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Ray Anderson, Vice President for University Athletics and Athletic Director at Arizona State University, discusses how his education, as well as his early career in the sports industry, prepared him to handle running athletics at a major university like ASU. Anderson shares his thoughts on fostering leadership development for student-athletes and the need to prioritize their academic success in addition to on-field success. Anderson and host of the #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, talk about topics such as the path to becoming an athletic director, the importance of radical humility, and how to build a collaborative culture that is focused on teamwork. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On this episode of the playbook I have Arizona State University athletic director Ray Anderson

0:06.5

he may have graduated from Harvard Law School but he has and knows the importance of radical

0:12.0

humility and how to build a collaborative

0:14.8

culture within a hyper competitive space not only through great facilities

0:19.7

but even more

0:25.0

on the people and teamwork.

0:26.0

This is Entrepreneurs The Playbook,

0:28.0

where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes,

0:31.0

celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and

0:35.7

professional playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.

0:42.4

I'm your host and CEO of Sports One Marketing, David

0:46.0

Melzer. This is Dave Melzer CEO of Sports One Marketing with

0:50.1

Entrepreneurs The Playbook and I have,

0:52.8

I shouldn't say an old friend, but a dear friend,

0:54.6

Ray Anderson, the athletic director of Arizona State

0:58.3

University, the Sun Devils, and we're here

1:00.1

right in the conference room,

1:01.9

ready to discuss something that I'm most interested in is

1:04.9

Ray welcome to the the playbook but I want to know the playbook to become an athletic director.

1:11.3

Well David I tell you man I didn't invent it that's for sure

1:15.1

the typical route as you know is through administration you start sometimes as a

1:19.1

intern you wake your way up through the ladder but kind of in the same department or

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