FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS I have been focusing on the difference leadership brings to business, politics, sport and prosperity.
If management is all about doing things right, then leadership can be summed up as doing the right things.
Leadership dominated the conversation around the Six Nations this year.
England were the clear early favourites, with Eddie Jones having delivered a huge turnaround in results since taking over after England’s 2015 Rugby World Cup debacle.
But we saw a spectacular implosion [again] with England losing to Scotland and France – and scraping a fortunate win versus Wales.
So what happened to the self proclaimed English juggernaut with the loudly expressed plan to become number one in the world, to overtake the All Blacks and to win the World Cup in 2019?
All kinds of reasons have been mooted. From Eddie Jones’ “we were only two percent to three per cent off”, “the game doesn’t love us”, “if the game loves us today we might win”, to more detailed explanations from the team: “it was a bit of a brick wall we were running into, but we believed in our systems and that we would tire them out.”
This story is from the Issue 193 – April/May 2018 edition of NZ Rugby World.
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