The #OpenLeadership model above (see core post: “Are you Ready for #Open Leadership?” is all about balance.
- A Brave and Hungry Leader may also be the type of leader who gets caught up with ego and the traits that come with that.
- An Open and Humble Leader may also lack ambition and desire to make an impact through their Leadership.
In developing the #OpenLeadership model through my many years of working with, listening to and learning from leaders in many fields and businesses, I find that it is the combination of and balance between the first two traits and the second two that is what creates the type of powerful leadership that has others want to follow such leaders.
One such leader is Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors NBA Basketball team. Elite sports is full of stories of people who become highly paid superstars and let their ego control them and so lose their impact as leaders of and within their team. Steph Curry is not like that.
This recent piece spoke of the longevity of his leadership and one key and simple phrase leapt off the page to me:
The one job more difficult for an NBA franchise than acquiring championship talent is keeping it together for an extended period. The league’s graveyard is rife with teams that reached the top but failed to endure, which is why the Warriors are such an anomaly.S
For that, they can thank Stephen Curry’s mastery of ego management.
The Warriors are appearing in the NBA Finals for the sixth time in eight seasons because of Steph’s broad social and cultural perspective, which allows him to balance humility and audacity so skillfully it sets a tone for the entire franchise.
Full article here by Monte Poole for NBC Sports
The excellent article looks at how Steph Curry remains humble in his approach, style, and leadership, whilst at the same time always being authentically audacious. In this approach, Steph Curry is a model of #OpenLeadership
Audacious is a wonderful synonym for both Brave and Hungry, I’ll add it to my lexicon when listening to leaders, listening for audacity!