Leadership in Sport

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Leadership in Sport

• April 2003 - TEMA

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Aimé Jacquet

• Was a soccer player in the past then trainer
• Problem of image
• Old fashionned and flabby aspect
• Difficulty to communicate via the media
• Never respond to all the attack before the end of
  the World Cup
• Keep focusing on the team and not the
  communication
• After his success, he continues to share his
  experiences
• Technical directory of F.F.F.
• Consultant, coaching for firm, seminary,

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Aimé Jacquets view

• Strong team spirit
•  One for all and all for one 
• Was looking for people that stick to the group
• For example Cantona vs Pirès
• Isolate himself to think better to question
• Was respected by the group
• Testified of enough conviction (keep players
  attention)
• Made clear messages victory, team spirit
• Motivate team and go to the top with a team of
  strong individualities

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compare to Roger Lemerre

• Afraid of redefine the team
• Lost two internal leaders
• Importance of supporters
•  What can the player bring to the team 
  positive collective speech Vs individualist
  speech.
• Respected by the team and not considered as the
  Boss
• Not able to protect the team

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Jack Nicklaus

• He is consider as the golf player of the twentieh
  century and of all the time
• Won 20 majors tournaments from 1959 to 1986
• Was still playing last year in the professional
  league

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Jack Nicklaus by himself

• One of his great quality is to always keep
  analysing his  swing 
• Always try to understand causes and consequences
• Always want to know the  why  of the  how .
  Never dissociate them.
•  Analyse, work and accept is a step for
  progress 

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Jack Nicklaus by his wife

• Never met someone determined and voluntary
• She knew he will succeed no matter the way he
  would choose
• Always try to enjoy the play, not like a job
• Even when he lose, the winner is not his
  competitor but the golf
• Always the defeat and restart with a bigger
  determination.

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What are the most important strengths in sports ?

• Long term vision
• Strategist / Tactician
• Collectivist
• Use strengths of each member to serve the team
• Spirit of progression
• Catch attention of everybody
• Merge people and motivate them
• Solitary to think outside the group and be ahead
  of problems
• Well being and assume his appearence
• Be acknowledged
• Well organized
• As a professionnal vs hazard

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Characteristics adjustable to the business world
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