Earning Respect, Trust, and the Right to Lead | MJ Mondays
Michael Jordan said that when he first came into the NBA, his leadership came from action; all action. He said he couldn't be a vocal leader at the beginning. He was afraid to speak to veteran guys because they had a level of envy towards him to start with. He had to pick his friends very carefully because he was starting to steal some shine from the older guys on the team. But he also said that he was earning respect and the right to lead with effort and work, and he wasn't asking for anyone to give him anything. His practice habits were great and he forced the other guys to improve their practice habits by how hard he worked. MJ challenged his teammates with his play in practice because his coach challenged him. At the end of each practice, they would scrimmage, and the losers had to run. They would be killing the second team, and his coach would stop practice and put MJ in the second team and the second team, with MJ, would still come back to win. There are a lot of ways to ...