With the end of a legendary coaching career coming to end for Duke’s Mike Krzyzweski, Jason Barger chats with Duke basketball legend and 2-time NBA Champion, Shane Battier, about life lessons learned from Coach K.
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Jason introduces Season 6 episode 10 of the podcast, Lessons From A Coaching Legend: Chat With Shane Battier. Welcome back to the podcast on corporate culture and leadership and thank you for listening. We engage thought leaders like CEOs, CFOs, managers, VPs, directors, and more for this podcast. We wish to create content that engages your mind and heart and allows you to step back and think and add some positivity to your life. We deep dive into today’s topic.
We can’t control everything but what we can control is our response. Still a lot of work to do but wanted to remind the audience what is within our control is the temperature we create in the organizations and teams we work with. If you have a suggestion, please send it to info@jasonvbarger.com
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1:30 – Jason introduces the episode and mentions Shane Battier’s Take Charge Foundation and the amazing work they do.
5:09 – Shane Battier talk about life lessons and the amazing legacy and work of Coach K and the impact he had on Shane Battier’s life as a basketball player and a human being. A story about the impeccable signature of Coach K is told from Shane as a metaphor for giving your all in anything that has your name.
“If you’re involved in something, give it your all” – Coach K
12:45 – Many things impact the score of a basketball game. It isn’t just about success and failure but how you react to that which is in front of you that matters. It’s the people and players in life that matter, if you can attack that together with energy and focus and togetherness if you experience success or failure, those are the people that have success over the long term. It is a habit that you have to develop says Shane Battier in this conversion with Jason Barger about life, basketball, and Coach K.
16:41 – Consistency and the value of is talked about in this great discussion on creating value for yourself. “Play the next play” says Shane Battier. This is about consistency that makes you be a valued go-to player in an organization.
21:43 – Shane talks about earning the opportunity for court time during practice and loving the fight to work hard. To meet someone who he could compete with in the same and loving way unlocked everything for Shane. Shane says working with Coach K was a perfect match.
26:00 – Don’t be the pinky be with us. Shane tells a story of Coach K saying a boxing metaphor. If you throw punches with your pinky out it will break, don’t be the pinky and do your own thing, work as one unit and work together with us.
27:20 – The Take Charge foundation is Shane’s focus to make a positive impact in the world. When you can give people support and love and opportunity it is truly amazing to give back and help those who need a boost and that is what the foundation does.
“How quickly can you get on to the next play?”
Calibrating our own thermostat for ourselves and those around us. How we commit to breathing in good oxygen.
In the next episode, we will go over emotional intelligence in the workplace.
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A thermostat is proactive. It sets the temperature in a room. Controls the temperature. Regulates the temperature. But in today’s distracted, fast-paced and digital world, it’s easy for individuals and organizations to act more like thermometers, slipping into reactionary thinking, becoming scattered and inconsistent. The most compelling leaders, teams, organizations, families, or collection of humans of any kind operate in thermostat mode. They calibrate their mind and heart to set the temperature for the vision and culture they want to create. Jason Barger, globally celebrated author, keynote speaker, and founder of Step Back Leadership Consulting, is the host of The Thermostat, a podcast journey to discover authentic leadership, create compelling cultures and find clarity of mission, vision, and values.