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Lesson #24 - Define reality. Give hope.

The danger of the work I do with leaders is that it is reduced to a kind of ‘project’, with distinct timelines and expectations. But leadership is a practice, not a project. The most important practice is reflection, ensuring awareness of your role and its demands.

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Lesson #23 - Figure out who you are

It wouldn’t matter if it was football or whatever; the essence of being as good as you can be is to figure out who you are.

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Lesson #22 - Begin Again

A key lesson I learned the hard way is that no matter how good your culture and strategy seem at any time, all solutions are temporary.

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Lesson #21 - Letting the tide go out

What I do know is this. Leadership, if you’re prepared to embrace all its expectations, will pick you up somewhere and leave you somewhere else.

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Lesson #20 - Growers and arrivers

I have learned that discomfort marks the place where the old way meets the new way. It is a place of vulnerability and courage.

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Lesson #19 - Constraints make the art possible

To draw the energy or inspiration from somewhere to bring something into existence that was not there before.

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Lesson #01 (Reprise) - Ron Barassi: “If it is to be, it is up to me”

Over the past thirty years, whenever I saw Ron, he smiled that broad grin under his now grey moustache, put out his hand and said, “It’s Cam-aulenko”.

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Lesson #18 - The strongest steel

Richmond achieved something generations of highly equipped groups of players, coaches, and administrators had failed to accomplish, not because they weren’t good enough, but because it is fucking hard.