Anson Dorrance on Human Development
b'Coach Anson Dorrance is the Head Coach of the University of North Carolina\\u2019s Women\\u2019s Soccer Team. He\\u2019s the only Head Coach in program history, having coached 45 seasons as the Women\\u2019s Head Coach. He graduated from North Carolina, he spent his time there, he actually coached the Men\\u2019s team and the Women\\u2019s team when he first got there. He\\u2019s won over 1000 games and he\\u2019s won 22 National Championships. He has coached some of the best soccer players of all time and won a World Cup with the Women\\u2019s Soccer Team. So, in women\\u2019s soccer coaching history from a legacy standpoint, Coach Dorrance is the cream of the crop. He\\u2019s on the Mount Rushmore of coaching in general, but especially in women\\u2019s soccer. He\\u2019s in the Soccer Hall of Fame, he\\u2019s been named Coach of the Year seven times, the resume just goes on and on and on. He is someone who obviously knows a lot about what it takes to build a team, to build a roster, to develop character, and to develop a competitive spirit. We\\u2019re going to talk a lot about collaboration and competitive spirit in this conversation, we\\u2019re going to discuss leadership ad nauseam and at length, and you\\u2019re going to find really quickly that Coach Dorrance has intentional values that he uses and leverages with his team that are constantly evolving. So, this is someone who has built a program and he will continue to lead that program for the next 5 years, as we get into in today\\u2019s conversation. At the end of the day, this is someone who loves to develop humans and he cares deeply about developing humans and he thinks about developing humans all the time. He is truly a lifelong learner. It was a pleasure, it was an honor to learn from him; I hope you pull out a pad of paper and a pen and start taking notes because there are just a ton of gems throughout today\\u2019s conversation.\\n\\xa0\\nCoach Dorrance had a number of amazing insights during our conversation. Some of them include:\\n\\u201cIt\\u2019s not really a sports season unless there\\u2019s some sort of crisis you\\u2019re dealing with\\u201d (7:20).\\n\\u201cI just like to play sports and read books\\u201d (16:50).\\n\\u201cThe truly extraordinary business leaders construct a business that can basically last forever\\u201d (18:40).\\n\\u201cMy main job is human development\\u201d (23:10).\\n\\u201cThe key is to be falling forward\\u201d (34:40).\\n\\u201cWhat\\u2019s critical is the way you construct your own narrative\\u201d (35:25).\\n\\u201cWe still want to be responsible for our failures\\u201d (35:50).\\n\\u201cThere\\u2019s nothing wrong with failing\\u201d (36:25).\\n\\u201cWhat\\u2019s critical for the leaders is to embrace their role\\u201d (37:10).\\n\\u201cThe ideal form of leadership is someone who will lead verbally\\u201d (39:25).\\n\\u201c[The most critical element for success in all of the team\\u2019s I\\u2019ve had] is good leadership\\u201d (40:15).\\n\\u201cIf you don\\u2019t have the capacity to lead yourself, you\\u2019re not going to be in position to lead anyone else\\u201d (40:40).\\n\\u201cI treasure the leaders I\\u2019m given, but I don\\u2019t take any credit for them\\u201d (46:15).\\n\\u201cWe all live on a leadership continuum\\u201d (50:15).\\n\\u201cThe kids I\\u2019m recruiting know where they\\u2019re coming\\u201d (57:20).\\n\\u201cThe truly elite players want to know where they stand\\u201d (57:45).\\n\\u201cI love the accountability of data for your performance\\u201d (1:05:05).\\n\\u201cThe truly great competitors have to understand that if you truly want to win it\\u2019s not about you winning in a team sport, it\\u2019s about the team winning\\u201d (1:06:25).\\n\\u201cSelf-belief is something I\\u2019m not going to touch\\u201d (1:20:50).\\n\\u201cEnergizing is a form of collaboration\\u201d (1:21:20).\\n\\u201cI believe in leading a principle-centered life\\u201d (1:25:05).\\n\\u201cI believe in governing without rules\\u201d (1:27:25).\\n\\u201cI believe in trying to get everyone\\u2019s personal narrative to the truth as fast as possible. And how do we do that? With data\\u201d (1:27:30).\\n\\xa0\\nAdditionally, you can purchase Coach Dorrance\\u2019s books, Training Soccer Champions and The Vision of a Champion, anywhere books are sold. You can also find Coach Dorrance\\u2019s website here.\\nThank you so much to Coach Dorrance for coming on the podcast!\\nI wrote a book called \\u201cShift Your Mind\\u201d that was released in October of 2020, and you can order it on A'