Friday, March 2, 2018

Basketball, Egos, Leadership

One of my jobs is working Audio/Video at our Sporting Arena, The Ford Center.  

This weekend is the big Ohio Valley Conference Championships -- 14 basketball games in four days.  Brutal work schedule, but rewarding and fun.

This is a new converence for us and we, as a production team, seem to be having problems undertanding many of the limitations that league officials are putting on us.  In an attempt to keep the "on-air" as neautral as possible, they are really limiting our story telling ability during the game.  I won't go into details, but I'll just say that the demands are counterintuitive to what we usually do during a production.  The result:  A lot of egos on headsets trying to fight the system.   Myself included.

All of this has reminded me of a couple of lessons: 


1)  The need to let go of your ego.  Great leaders are not in the game for personal gain, they lead in order to SERVE people.
2)  They great John Wooden was a hall-of-fame leader long before he was a hall-of-fame coach.

Two more days of basketball.  Today I vow to let my ego go and be a better leader.  After all, mine is not a better way, mine is merely a different way.  

Carpe diem Life,

David Kuhn


 

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