August 26, 2005
Coach's Secrets for Winning Apply to Law Firms
Lee Ann Herron, VP of Juris, Inc., attended a charitable function last week with Pat Summitt as the speaker. Pat Summitt is the Hall of Fame coach of the Lady Volunteers, the women’s basketball team of the University of Tennessee. Summitt is the first female coach to win 800 games and her wins are still piling up. Lee Ann and Pat were college schoolmates and sorority sisters at the University of Tennessee.
When you have a winning coach like Summitt, whatever she says is going to be worth listening to. Great leaders (including coaches) always have a guiding set of core beliefs that they stick to — day after day, year after year. Coach Summitt calls hers the Definite Dozen. Here are Coach Summitt’s powerful Definite Dozen just as she shared them with her audience:
1. Respect yourself and others
2. Take full responsibility
3. Develop and demonstrate loyalty
4. Learn to be a great communicator
5. Discipline yourself so no one else has to
6. Make hard work your passion
7. Don't just work hard, work smart
8. Put the team before yourself
9. Make winning an attitude
10. Be a competitor
11. Change is a must
12. Handle success like you handle failure
P.S. Sue Gunther, another great women’s basketball coach passed away a couple of weeks ago. She was 67. A month or so before her passing, her fans and friends had a “dedication” dinner for her. As she left the podium with her oxygen mask, her parting words were, “It goes fast." Of course, “it” was life. Keep Gunther’s remark in mind. Remember “More Partner Income” is to be enjoyed. Don’t let life be entirely wasted on the young — Carpe Diem!
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