Monday, March 24, 2025

Core Values

Benefit from core values. They go by different names - absolutes, identity, non-negotiables, philosophy.

MVB coaches and players know your core values. As an outsider, I don't. My basketball team core values were TIA - teamwork, improvement, and accountability

Teamwork equals unselfishness, togetherness, and "team first attitude." 

Improvement implied process, progress, and a 'growth mindset'. 

Accountability meant holding ourselves to a high standard of performance

Core values arise from a panoply of possibles. Commitment, discipline, energy, effort, positivity, reliability, resilience, sacrifice, toughness and others could be core values. 

Why three? Former Navy SEAL team leader Jocko Willink explained that one of his men said before a mission, "what are the three mission points? I can't remember more than that?"

Teams succeed when they have core values, leaders to promote them, and players who want to live the values. 

Lagniappe. MVB has a strong culture formed over decades. 

Lagniappe 2. Everyone benefits from learning how to set as "out of system" attacks matter, too. 

 

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