wc 2015 leadership lessons by girish batra
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WC 2015
Some Business & Leadership Learning
Girish Batra
Captains’ strength
• Leadership
• Confident Decision making
• Experience
• Supports in failures/out of form/out of luck
• Motivating
• Powerful – Had trust, confidence of selectors and board
• India’s most successful captain
Teams’ Strength
• Young Team
• Most of team in Form
• Experienced playing in Aus-NZ for 3 months before WC 2015
What did Captain Cool miss ?
To lose Indias’ World Cup
Whats the learning for Leaders ?
3 Areas of Post Mortem
• Poor Performance
• Experimentation in Good Times
• Complacency
1.No action on poor performance
• A Leader needs to act on poor performance else in some time he will become a non-performer
• It is good to be supportive of people going thru a bad patch /poor performance but somewhere action needs to be taken on people at the bottom of bell curve
• Action on poor performance sends message across the board that ‘ur selection in the playing 11 is earned based on current performance not past accolades’ else ‘seat khali karo’ - let the next deserving man in please
Performance fits in a Bell curve !!!!
RavindraJadeja
AjinkyaRane
Ashwin
2. No Experimentation when going was good
• Dhoni did not change the team even against minnows like Afghanistan & UAE
• Did not want to upset the rhythm
• Fear of failure ??
What a Leader should do?
• There is no such thing as Rhythm /Luck in a Leaders’ dictionary
• If we experiment when times are good then maybe we bypass bad times ( Semi Final failure)
• It is easy to experiment in Good times as – success can give u new learnings to go higher
– Failure can give u lesson with minimal cost ( India would have not LOST against Afghanistan/UAE!!)
3.Complacency/ Sycophancy
• The team is relatively young & see Dhoni as a Godfather
• Praising him in front of Media, Staff gives u credits in Captains books
• Sycophancy colors reviews as we all are humans and like yes men /good speaking people not opposers ( like Yuvraj Singh? )
How to overcome
• Be dis-passionate(brutal) in review ( Sack urfavorite employee if reviews show he is a non-performer…easier said than done )
• Take 3rd /4th party (Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar) opinion to check if u are on the right review track
• At time sycophants are the real enemies and opposers the real friends
Thats all from WC 2015