Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
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Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
What changed things for me, what made this imaginative process creative, was when I began to see in my mind’s eye the moves I would need to defend against these players. Each move I then came up with was an invention of mine, something that had not existed before.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
Curiosity is a process.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
I am frequently asked if I am a basketball player, and I always say no. One time years ago John Havlicek and I were standing in an airport when he asked me why I did that. I told him what I had been telling myself all along: basketball is what I do, it’s not who I am.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
RUSSELL RULES Rule One: Take responsibility for everything you do. One great quality that leaders have is the ability to take responsibility—we all know that responsibility ultimately gravitates to the person who can shoulder it. We must all be strong enough. The more you stand behind what you do or what you decide, the more you will be able to fee
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Nearly all of my new teammates were egotists in exactly the way Red was. Each of them knew how good he was, but each of them seemed to understand perfectly that everyone had to play his part for us to win.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
We’re all bilingual. Most people, for example, are called on to use different languages for different audiences. We all have both public and private languages. For example, when you are going to a business meeting, you have to adjust your language to allow your audiences to listen to you more effectively. You need to choose words that are more than
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My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars’ worth of work so at the end of the day he could look any man in the eye and tell him where to go. My father believed that you could feel a sense of security for giving more than what someone was expecting from you. I took my lead from
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When a ball reached me in the middle, it was as though my eyesight and my hands got better. I could see from sideline to sideline, knowing where each of my teammates was. My impulse was to get the ball to someone who was in a position to shoot. More and more, I prided myself on my passing. I never made fancy passes, but I always made good ones that
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Letting go is most difficult when we are most personally attached. The decision one makes to retire comes to mind. An individual can make no more important decision, yet what is most essential in making that decision is the ability to let go. It is hard to leave a company, a team, a way of life. So much has been invested, so much history, so much e
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you are the only one who can define what is and isn’t right for you. It is essential that you recognize this because what you are after is the location of that place within yourself, yourself alone, that you will have to call on to choose right from wrong, wise from unwise, caring from uncaring or indifferent.