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Clive Woodward

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first: 2020-10-05
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“challenge because that keeps you awake at night. But when I run around my business from the secretary to the what have I got to do to make you better at your job? And if you do that, they won't forget that. And that's why I spoke before about trust and respect. I think you get that. And if you do it, if you just talk about it and you talk a good game, you can't hide these people. They know whether you're delivering or not.”
2020-10-05 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Clive Woodward on No Bullsh*t Leadership in partnership with Havas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I'm thinking about this, my favorite sayings, and I say this to players, great teams made great individuals, and I repeat it, great teams made a great individual. My job with rugby team is to make every individual player better. So I'm going to make Martin Johnson, Johnny Wilkinson, Lawrence Deladio. My job is to make them better at what they do. And basically, if you get every individual and think of your business people, your salespeople, your marketing people, your fortified truck driver, if you invest in them and you're going to try and make that individual better, they will give it back to you in Buckyloads. And I really do. They'll know whether you're bullshitting or not. So is this guy delivering? Is he making me a better player in a sports team or a business team? You're around the room and suddenly you see all these amazing individuals who are superstar players. The team stuff, Chris, becomes quite easy to do. That's how I've always worked, you know, and hence a rugby team's quite interesting because it's so different even a football team because there's so many different positions of different sizes. So I want where every single player as best they possibly can.”
2020-10-05 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Clive Woodward on No Bullsh*t Leadership in partnership with Havas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“yourself for some banjo ridicule let me decide whether it's good or bad idea what i pride myself on is listening and making sure all these players are really empowered to think about things and then what i am think i'm quite good at if i think that's a good idea that you thought about that's going to you know in sporting terms make the boat go faster i'll move heaven and earth to get it done you have to do that's your job so if this is going to make you better team with more gold medals make the boat go faster we will do it we'll get it done doesn't matter what it costs it has to happen”
2020-10-05 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Clive Woodward on No Bullsh*t Leadership in partnership with Havas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I honestly don't think there is, Chris. I really, really don't. The two key skills gets just what I call relentless learning. You're always learning. There's no doubt you look at these great football managers. They're always learning, always trying to find new things, new edges. They're not sitting there thinking, great, we've cracked it. Learning is everything. And the key thing is if you can get the learning done through your people, so it's not just yourself who is a relentless learner. You're encouraging every single person in the team. One of my favorite sayings in the rugby team, there's no such thing as a dumb idea. Because sometimes a new player would come into the team, even a young Johnny Wilkinson, when Johnny came into the England rugby team, he was 18 amazing young man, superstar player, but he was so shy. He was so quiet. He was almost intimidated by the more senior players. Then you got me asking to stand up and speak in front of these players, and he just couldn't. I made it clear you've got to get everybody involved. If you've got an idea, you say it, you stand up, doesn't matter if you leave.”
2020-10-05 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Clive Woodward on No Bullsh*t Leadership in partnership with Havas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“After you, but I learned from both I learned from a big corporate background and I learned especially from running my own small company. I went to go to the rugby team. Often the players would probably used to drive the nuts, they used to refer to business all the time with them about what we did and how we did things. I like things they learned quite a bit and I made no difference. This is a business and we're here to win and that's the game.”
2020-10-05 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Clive Woodward on No Bullsh*t Leadership in partnership with Havas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I couldn't write it down or anything, but you just throw the kitchen sink at it. You realize you've got to really listen to your people, you've got to make them engage with it. But, you know, we're talking about no HR. There are 10 people sat in a room and we took on some big, big guys and some of these big deals had a lot of fun. I learned so much in that more in that eight years than anything else. So when you talk with the rugby to him, mum, there's no difference. I think when I think about rugby and business, you're delivering results through people. That's what leadership's about. You're not delivering it through yourself. You're delivering results through people. When you think of it, that's the definition of a rugby team, a football team. Any business team, you just find your ways to really engage and empower your team and where you go. And I kind of loved it. It's interesting, you know, whilst I love coaching England. I love running my own business. There was no greater buzz than being absolutely the guy in charge. Everything's on the line. School fees, the house, there's no one.”
2020-10-05 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Clive Woodward on No Bullsh*t Leadership in partnership with Havas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did have a clue what I was doing. I can look back now, I can say all these wonderful things. But when I say I didn't have a clue, of course I did, but when I got the England rugby job, I think the key thing everyone should understand, I'm kind of too crazy in business before that. I worked for Xerox, ranked Xerox for eight years, including five in Australia. So, you know, I was a kind of graduate trainee and I was a sales director in Sydney. So I had a big corporate background. But probably most importantly, when we came back from Australia, I set up my own small leasing and finance company based on the skills under Xerox finance. We were a small brokerage. So when I say small, it's about 10 people. They also ran for eight years. So I had a big corporate background in terms of Xerox, graduate training, all that sort of stuff. But probably the most important thing was running your own company where you got 10 people in the room. And I really look back at that time, running my own small finance company. That was the key skills I learned in terms of taking over the regular.”
2020-10-05 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Clive Woodward on No Bullsh*t Leadership in partnership with Havas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At the time when the word use was relieved to me, it was just a massive relief when that final whistle went. You know, it was just thank goodness for that. And also, you just know there was no second chance. That was never happened again. There was no next week or try again. That was it. And if we had not won that game, I haven't a clue how I would have turned out. I don't think probably very well. And I don't think any of us would have because we knew it was a chance of lifetime. And that was pressure. But the pressure was grey. You wouldn't swap it for anything. I loved the pressure of it.”
2020-10-05 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Clive Woodward on No Bullsh*t Leadership in partnership with Havas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source