S2E136 Competitive Excellence with Hugh McCutcheon
The Brian Buffini Show
Brian Buffini
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Championship results require championship behaviors. In this episode, Olympic coach Hugh McCutcheon shares a proven framework for competitive excellence that’s based on his decades of coaching experience and success.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· How rivalry can improve performance.
· Why competitive excellence matters in business.
· How to step up and compete.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
“Championship Behaviors,” by Hugh McCutcheon
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“We all want to win, but we can't all win all the time.” – Hugh McCutcheon
“Our opponent can draw from us performances that we can’t create ourselves.” – Hugh McCutcheon
“If you're going to be good, you’ve got to put the hay in the barn.” – Hugh McCutcheon
“You've got to be really clear about what matters most - what is going to help you to achieve the goal. And that's where you want to put your time and energy.” – Hugh McCutcheon
“If you're going to have the best chance of that good tomorrow, start by having a good today. Do the work, control the things you can, do your best to help those around you and learn and get better.”– Hugh McCutcheon
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| 0:00.0 | picture this static cars idling engines angry horns now picture you zooming |
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| 0:35.0 | welcome to it's a good life the podcast for entrepreneurs where it's all about growing |
| 0:40.1 | yourself and your business here's your host founder of america's largest business coaching |
| 0:45.3 | company brine the feeling well the top of the morning to you and welcome to it's a |
| 0:52.8 | good life have a great show lined up for you today and interview one of my favorite |
| 0:57.7 | people his name is humor cuching and hugh's life has been one of leadership especially |
| 1:03.0 | in the sport of volleyball as a player he represented his native New Zealandi came |
| 1:07.8 | to the states to play b-y-u then became a coach at b-y-u part of that staff that turned |
| 1:13.9 | around a team that had a two and twenty seven record to a team that went on within a few |
| 1:19.3 | years to win a couple of national championships for eleven seasons hugh coach at the university |
| 1:24.8 | of minnesota the women's team there and he took them to three final four appearances they |
| 1:29.0 | won eighty percent of their matches you don't need to know much about sports or volleyball |
| 1:33.0 | to know that's pretty good and as an Olympic coach he achieved something only three coaches |
| 1:37.9 | in the world have ever done which is he won medals with both the men's team and the women's |
| 1:44.6 | team the men win an Olympic gold in two thousand eight and the women taken silver in twenty twelve |
| 1:50.6 | so a breath of fabulous leadership experiences with everybody you finally wrote down all his |
| 1:56.5 | secrets in his book championship behaviors a model for competitive excellence in sports |
| 2:02.2 | and he today he's a consultant he consults the university minnesota also the international |
| 2:06.7 | volleyball federation as well as appearing on shows like this and I'm really excited to announce |
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