Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life

by James Kerr

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James Kerr goes inside the New Zealand All Blacks - the most successful sporting team in history with a 77% winning record over more than a century - to extract 15 powerful lessons in leadership, culture, and sustained excellence. Through concepts like 'Sweep the Sheds' (leaders do the menial work) and 'No Dickheads' (character over talent), Kerr reveals how the All Blacks built an organisational culture of humility, purpose, and collective accountability that transcends individual eras and players.

Published:: 2013
Pages:: 224

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In this collection, Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life references 5 other books.

It draws on The Score Takes Care of Itself, Good to Great and High Output Management.

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Kerr's analysis of All Blacks culture - where standards are set so high that performance becomes automatic - directly parallels Walsh's philosophy that organisational standards and preparation make the scoreboard take care of itself

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The Score Takes Care of Itself

by Bill Walsh

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The All Blacks' 'Sweep the Sheds' principle, where senior players clean the locker room, embodies Collins's Level 5 leadership concept from Good to Great - humble leaders who channel ambition toward the organisation rather than themselves

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Good to Great

by Jim Collins

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Legacy's focus on how the All Blacks create high-performing units through clear accountability, shared standards, and distributed responsibility reflects Grove's principles of high output management and leverageing organisational culture for results

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High Output Management

by Andrew Grove

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Kerr's portrayal of how the All Blacks distribute leadership throughout the team rather than centralizing it reflects Marquet's model of pushing decision-making authority to every level of the organisation

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Turn the Ship Around!

by L. David Marquet

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The All Blacks' cultural tenets address each of Lencioni's five team dysfunctions, building trust through vulnerability, embracing conflict for better decisions, and holding each other accountable to shared standards

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

by Patrick Lencioni

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