Eddie Jones, the Head Coach of England's Rugby Union team, shares his wealth of experience in elite sports leadership. He reveals five essential values for leaders and his unique non-negotiables. Eddie discusses the importance of making a great first impression and how to navigate media scrutiny under pressure. He also emphasizes the need for empathy in team dynamics and how diversity enhances performance. With personal anecdotes, he explores maintaining passion and structured habits in coaching, while balancing authority and player autonomy.
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Coaching's Complexity
Coaching is complex; consider players' individuality and the team's needs.
Create a learning environment and explain the "why" behind actions.
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Modern Coaching
Modern coaching involves more factors than before, like creating learning environments.
It's about guiding players towards standards, not commanding them.
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Values of a Leader
Leaders need courage, hard work, discipline, iron will, and curiosity.
These values are crucial for building a team and setting a high vision.
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Unlocking the Key to Willing and Winning Relationships
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The Leadership PIN Code offers a practical framework rooted in neuroscience and psychology to help leaders engage and motivate their teams effectively. It emphasizes the importance of empathy, curiosity, and strategic communication in leadership. The book provides actionable advice on how to become a more engaged leader by understanding and applying the PIN code principles: persuade, influence, and negotiate.
Winning Edge
Winning Edge
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The Art of Impossible
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Flow
The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In this classic work, Csikszentmihalyi investigates 'optimal experience' and reveals that true happiness and satisfaction can be achieved through a state of consciousness called 'flow.' During flow, individuals experience complete concentration on the task, clarity of goals, and immediate feedback. The book demonstrates how this positive state can be controlled and how it can improve the quality of life by unlocking meaning, creativity, and peak performance.
The winner within
A Life Plan for Team Players
Pat Riley
In 'The Winner Within', Pat Riley shares his tactics for converting teams into units with an emphasis on the greater good. The book provides winning strategies that inspire change, motivate teamwork, and reveal the winner within individuals. It is applicable not just on the court but also in business, at home, and in personal achievement.
Deep Work
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
In 'Deep Work', Cal Newport argues that the ability to perform deep work—professional activities in a state of distraction-free concentration—is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. The book is divided into two parts: the first part explains why deep work is valuable, rare, and meaningful, while the second part presents four rules to transform your mind and habits to support this skill. These rules include 'Work Deeply', 'Embrace Boredom', 'Quit Social Media', and 'Drain the Shallows'. Newport provides actionable advice and examples from various successful individuals to help readers master the skill of deep work and achieve groundbreaking results.
Eddie Jones is the Head Coach of England Rugby Union Team.
Eddie has played for Australia and coached the South Africa, Australia, Japan and England national teams. And after decades at the peak of elite sport, he's picked up a tip or two about how to lead a team and deal with setbacks.
Expect to learn the 5 values that every leader needs to have, Eddie's non-negotiables for making him the best leader he can be, why he bought a samurai sword to attack some fruit with, his tips on how to make a good first impression, how to deal with pressure, how he copes with media scrutiny and much more...
Modern Wisdom 
