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A Leadership Lesson from Fighting Illini Basketball...
 

University of Illinois (my Alma Mater) Head Basketball Coach Bruce Weber has come under intense fire lately, precipitated by our basketball team's late season swoon.  Let me begin by stating that this post is not about whether Bruce should or shouldn't be fired, but I do believe this situation provides us an outstanding leadership lesson...
Coach Weber has always characteristically exhibited much transparency including in his interactions with the media (for which I applaud him).  After a particularly disappointing loss to Purdue, he volunteered the following analysis of his own performance:
"Instead of developing people, I've been worried about winning.  Maybe I should have sat down (player's names) 3 weeks ago, a month ago.  You have to develop a culture.  I think the past 3 years all I did was worry about winning instead of developing a culture and a toughness.    We're always mollycoddlying them (the players).  You try to please everyone instead of pleasing yourself. In hindsight... (trailing off)".
What Coach Weber confessed to was that when the heat was on - when the pressure of big time college basketball intensified - he abandoned his own beliefs in deference to the opinions of others.  In the process, he betrayed his own core values particularly with respect to player development and ... more

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