This is the 3rd episode of a 9-part series on the 1924 New Zealand ‘All Blacks’ rugby team forever known as “The Invincibles”.This series is both the telling of an epic story and an extraction of timeless lessons around shared identity, team culture and leadership. It is about storytelling and learnings – not scrums and lineouts.In each episode I am joined by a guest who helps navigate the events that unfold & and shed light on insights that have a contemporary significance.In this 3rd episode I’m joined by my friend – Wayne Smith. Smithy is a former All Black who earned 17 caps in the 1980s before transitioning into one of rugby’s most successful and respected coaches. He played a pivotal role as assistant coach in guiding the All Blacks to Rugby World Cup triumphs in 2011 and 2015, and later guided the NZ women’s rugby team – the Black Ferns - to their 2022 World Cup victory. .This episode is called “The Voyage” and traces the 'forming' stage of this team during their 39 day boat voyage from Wellington, New Zealand to Plymouth, England.This episode includes the story of: a new captain ... without a plancreation of a Player Leadership Groupdeveloping an innovative daily rituala deep story of the team value of "caring"sacrifice in action by the new captainIn this episode Wayne and I traverse these events and explore in conversation:the power of team Identitythe importance of connecting talent to the shirt they wearthe power of tracking team values back in timeplayer empowerment as a coaching philosophythe power of ritualsthe benefits of big picture framing in high performance pursuitsThe visual version of this episode, including images of players and events mentioned, is available on YouTube here: XXXClick here to purchase a copy of Owen's book, Belonging.
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Ep.2 - Born into Chaos
This is the 2nd episode of a 9-part series on the 1924 New Zealand ‘All Blacks’ rugby team forever known as 'The Invincibles'.This series is both the telling of an epic story and an extraction of timeless lessons around shared identity, team culture and leadership. It is about storytelling and learnings – not scrums and lineouts.In each episode I am joined by a guest who both helps navigate the events that unfold, and shed light on insights that have a contemporary significance.In this 2nd episode I’m joined by my friend and colleague – Luke Donald. Luke is a professional golfer, former world no.1 player and 2-time European Ryder Cup campaign – including Bethpage, New York this year . This episode is called “Born into Chaos” and explores the team’s very challenging beginnings before departing for the United Kingdom, including:allegations of racismrumours of a World War One contentious objector in the teampolitical interference around team selectionpoor form in pre tour matchesbeing written off by an iconic former playerlast minute change of captainIn this episode Luke and I traverse these events and explore in conversation:the importance of a team’s sense of its unique Identityconnecting people to something greater than themselvesdeep focus on controllableschallenging negative beliefs through facts and datadealing with chaos and negativitythe leader prioritising (1) a legitimate Plan to compete; and (2) Team CohesionThe visual version of this episode, including images of players and events mentioned, is available on YouTube here.Click here to purchase a copy of Owen's book, Belonging.
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Ep.1 - Prelude
In this first episode I’m joined by my friend and partner on this project, Dan Carter. Dan is one of the greatest rugby players of all time, and a wise and humble man. In this episode we:Set out our intent to break from ‘recency bias’ and learn from the pastDiscuss how our collaboration came aboutReveal Dan’s family connection to the InvinciblesGet into why it matters to retain a connection with the pastDiscuss the Māori concept of whakapapa and how it can power an identity storyProvide a sketch of 3 players who we will follow through the seriesPreview the timeless lessons that will emerge as the series unfoldsThe visual version of this episode, including images of players and events mentioned, is available on YouTube here.Click here to purchase a copy of Owen's book, Belonging.
A 9-part series on the 1924 New Zealand All Blacks rugby team forever known as “The Invincibles”.
This series is both the telling of an epic story – but also the extraction of timeless lessons around shared identity, team culture and leadership. It's about storytelling and learnings – not scrums and lineouts.
In each episode I am joined by a guest who both helps navigate the events that unfold and shed light on insights that have contemporary significance.
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