[EP 20] The All Blacks Business - On-Field Leaders
In this week’s podcast, Mike and Ryan discuss one of New Zealand’s most successful and beloved organizations: The All Blacks. While most don’t associate a rugby team with business, the All Blacks are very much a business organization, whose product happens to be a sport. Their unparalleled success over the years, and right now with their successes in the 2019 Rugby World Cup, makes it a great organization to study and learn from in a business context.
Mike and Ryan talk especially about the impact of Devolved Leadership, which is the practice of distributing practical decision making to on-field leaders instead of leaving all the decisions to a single, top-ranking, detached leader.
In this episode Mike and Ryan also cover:
The All Blacks’ change in coaching culture and how it was instrumental to their current successes
The need for an individual view in coaching while also maintaining a team culture
The key to the strongest type of leadership
How business leaders can apply the insights of this podcast to raise their organization to the level of the All Blacks
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