SKILL- John R. Wooden's Pyramid of Success #11

SKILL

Today is block #11 of the John R. Wooden's Pyramid of Success. 

Sorry I am a day late, I was feeling under the weather yesterday.

"At the very center of the Pyramid of Success is Skill. You have to know what you're doing and be able to do it quickly and properly. 

I had players at UCLA who were great shooters. Unfortunately they couldn't get off any shots so they didn't help us. I had players who could get off plenty of shots but couldn't shoot a lick. You need both: the ability to do it quickly and properly. Skill means being able to execute all of your job, not just part of it. 

It's true whether you're an athlete or an attorney,  a surgeon or a sales rep, or anything else. You'd better be able to execute properly and quickly. That's Skill. As much as I value experience, and I value it greatly, I'd rather have a lot of skill and less experience than a lot of experience and very little Skill. 

The range of Skills necessary for leadership, of course, differs from job to job and organization to organization. Those skills required to manage a small business differ from those needed to lead a Fortune 500 company, just as skills needed for coaching basketball differ from those necessary for coaching baseball. But regardless of the specific skills required in a profession, you must master all of them. 

Mastery of skills requires learning and it is my opinion that great leaders are lifelong learners. They also take measures to create an organization that fosters and inspires learning throughout. The most effective leaders are those who realize it's what you learn after you know it all that counts most.  

 Skill is located in the exact center of my Pyramid because it is at the heart of performance at a level of competitive greatness."

-John R. Wooden

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