Identifying and
nurturing top class leadership, sticking to your core team, clarity and
conviction about your own strategy, going against the trend, knowing your
limitations well, overcoming those limitations by punting on your primary
skills with a willingness to take a calculated loss on the secondary ones, and
to top it all, flawless execution on court – That in summary is how I feel CSK
ended up winning the IPL 2018. Sports many times provides more lessons than
training programs ever will. So much to learn there for corporate strategists
and indeed, any of us corporate citizens. For the record, CSK picked a team
with the highest average age in the tournament. When teams were outdoing each
other to bid for younger, fitter and athletic players, CSK went after players
on the wrong side of their 30s during the IPL auction, all with an eye on
retaining their core team from earlier years. During matches, they were already
accounting for the extra runs they will leak on the field and for the runs they
will lose due to their slower running between the wickets. They backed their
players to compensate for this through their primary skills (batting and
bowling). They were lucky too, as they won 4 of their matches, by scoring 40+
runs in the last 3 overs. With a leader like captain cool MSD on board, they
won the trophy with minimum fuss and maximum execution. Clarity, simplicity and
confidence did it for them. Begs a question, if in trying to be high tech, do
we sometimes lose our core and the essence of simplicity?
#Leadership #Clarity #Simplicity
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