Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.
Henry MintzbergRead
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.
Interpretation
Coaching involves guiding someone beyond their own perceived limits.
This quote emphasizes the role of a coach in facilitating growth and development in individuals, illustrating that a good coach helps players realize their potential and achieve goals they may not believe they can reach on their own. Coaching is about support, encouragement, and pushing individuals to surpass their self-imposed boundaries, ultimately leading to personal and professional success.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a sports event.
Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.
The reality is that the United States military alone cannot be all things to all nations. We will sharpen the application of our resources, better deploy our forces in the world and share our burdens more and more effectively with our partners. And frankly, all our allies need to do the same.
It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.
The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.
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