50+ years in baseball. 17 as an MLB manager. over 2,500 games from the dugout.
I won Manager of the Year and also lost more games than I want to count.
I led teams through losing seasons and took a team to the World Series.
The biggest difference was leadership.
If I could go back to my first day as a leader, here are the 5 lessons I'd whisper in my own ear:
Lesson 1: Be a window when it's good, a mirror when it's bad.
The leaders I respected most shared every win and absorbed every hit.
What this looks like in practice:
• Wins: name the people who made it happen
• Losses: say "that's on me" before anyone asks
• Locker room: spotlight the effort before the outcome
Your team will fight harder for a leader who deflects credit and absorbs blame.
Lesson 2: Nobody hands you trust. You earn it before you coach it.
Early in my career, plenty of coaches tried to fix my swing.
I tuned out every one I didn't trust.
Get to know your people before you try to develop them.
Their hobbies, their family, what makes them tick.
Then the coaching lands.
Lesson 3: Shower well after every loss.
After a losing streak in Colorado, our team president asked me how I kept the clubhouse together.
This was my rule:
• Self-evaluate honestly, were we prepared, did we execute?
• Shower well, wash off the grit, grime, and angst before you walk out
• Be present for whoever you're going home to
Tomorrow is a new opportunity. Don't drag yesterday into it.
Lesson 4: Lead transformationally, not transactionally.
Transactional leaders ask: what can this person do for me?
Transformational leaders ask: how do I put this person in a position to win?
The first builds compliance.
The second builds careers.
When your people start chasing growth instead of your approval, you've crossed over.
Lesson 5: Stay humble before life humbles you.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who are humble, and those who are about to be.
Discipline keeps you in the first group:
Skill gets you in the room. Humility keeps you there.
50 years taught me leadership isn't about you.
It's about the people you serve.
@Rockies
Why the Somali fraud wasn't called out by more Minnesotans is clear.
They're black immigrants, and critics don't want to be called racist.
As a son of African immigrants, I'll say: Some cultures are incompatible.
Immigrants who won't choose American culture shouldn't be here.
A year ago I would have thought this to be an overstatement. With the benefit of recent information, I have come to believe that @StephenM speaks the hard truth.
In the interest of every single person seeing this. Here is a bit of what they've done to Minnesota and what they're still doing to all of us.
Who's "they?"
Well it starts with a D.
The people who to ran Walz for VP of the US.
Of all people, right?
No accident.
County Highway kicked the rocks in Minnesota back on 1 December and now the landslide is upon us.
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County Highways was the first publication that reported on the Somali fraud issue.
One of the interesting things is that this is a meta-problem with the mainstream media. It's not what's being reported. It's what's NOT being reported. And then the inevitable question arises -- what did they know that they did not report?
We need outlets like these guys.
County Highway with even fewer resources beat Rufo by a solid week and I have receipts. Our story was promoted all over Twitter. Not a secret.
The fact that this hasn't been acknowledged is saddening given all this crowing abt beating the Times
Here is our story from Nov 12.