#80: Terry McGuirk, Atlanta Braves Chairman—Know Where You Need to Go

Today's guest is Terry McGurk, the Chairman of the Atlanta Braves. In 2016, right after the Braves went 68-93 (a pretty rough season), Terry told me that it would take five years to turn the franchise around. Well guess what? He had a turnaround plan that worked. And in 2021, the Braves won the World Series, which is exactly what he predicted. 

In this episode, you'll hear him talk about how they did this. But the lesson for us here as leaders is that Terry had extreme clarity about where he and the organization needed to go. 

Many leaders don't have a clear vision for their teams. Instead, they get caught in a vicious cycle of responding to emails and attending meetings without doing the necessary work to pause and zoom out and get clear about where the company needs to go. 

The goal of the leader is to take their team to victory. And we can't do that if we haven't first identified exactly where we need to go. 

You're about to hear how a great leader like Terry McGuirk had a clear view of success and how he assembled a team around him to execute that vision.

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