Lead Like Butler: Six Principles for Values-Based Leaders - Softcover

Millard, Kent; Cebula, Judith

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ISBN 10: 1426749147 ISBN 13: 9781426749148

Verlag: Abingdon Press, 2012

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In 2011, Butler University made history as the first team to make it to two consecutive finals of the NCAA basketball tournament without being seeded #1 or #2. As the smallest school to play in the championship game in the 40-year history of the tournament, Butler became the quintessential "Cinderella" team. How did this little-known Midwest university achieve what few schools have ever done by making it to the final championship game two years in a row. Much of the attention is focused on head coach and team leader Brad Stevens, who was only 33 years old at the time of the 2010 tournament. Often mistaken for one of the players, Stevens coaches according to a set of six values-based principles broadly known as the Butler Way - Humility, Passion, Unity, Service, Thankfulness, and Accountability. Through interviews with coaches, players, and alumni, M. Kent Millard explores the six leadership values taught by the entire coaching staff at Butler University. Each chapter of the book helps readers discover how these values form a solid foundation for pastors and other church leaders and anyone striving for success in life's journey.

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Kent Millard is a Gratitude Coach for thousands of congregations in the Midwest and former senior pastor of St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has served as a member of the leadership team for the Academy of Spiritual Formation program sponsored by the Upper Room. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Lead Like Butler

Six Principles for Values–Based Leaders

By Kent Millard, Judith Cebula

Abingdon Press

Copyright © 2013 Abingdon Press
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4267-4914-8

Contents

Foreword by Brad Stevens, 
Introduction, 
1. Humility, 
2. Passion, 
3. Unity, 
4. Servanthood, 
5. Thankfulness, 
6. Accountability, 
Epilogue, 
Notes, 

CHAPTER 1

HUMILITY

* * *

You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit. —President Harry S. Truman

Level five leaders demonstrate humility and a compelling modesty, shun public adulation, and are never boastful. —Jim Collins, Good to Great

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. —Paul of Tarsus (Phil. 2:3 NRSV)

Happy are people who are humble, because they will inherit the earth. —Jesus (Matt. 5:5)

Each summer the Butler University men's basketball team conducts a skills camp for elementary and junior high school students. At the camp, Coach Brad Stevens and his wife, Tracy, work in the cafeteria line on the first night, serving food to the young players and their parents who come through.

On one occasion, a mother of a prospective student came through the line to receive her food. She looked intently at Coach Stevens and said, "I think I have seen you someplace before. Are you connected with the Butler basketball team?"

Coach Stevens replied, "Yes, I am connected to the team."

The woman replied, "Good! Maybe you can tell me more about Blue [the Butler bulldog mascot]. Will we get to see him at the camp?"

Coach Stevens told her he also liked Blue but that Blue would not be at the camp. The woman said, "I just love that bulldog!"

She walked off, never knowing that the head basketball coach and his wife had served her food and answered her questions.

Brad later relayed this story to his team and reminded them not to think too highly of themselves. Some of their fans are more interested in the bulldog mascot than in the players on the team!

No Task Is Too Unimportant

Many head coaches simply show up at their basketball camps to say a few words of welcome. Coach Stevens and his wife put on an apron and serve. Their simple act speaks loudly to the Butler players and the young camp participants. When players see their head coach behind the counter serving food, they receive an important message: no task is too demeaning or unimportant when it makes a contribution to the well-being of others.

The players who make it on the Butler basketball team have all been high school basketball stars and have received various awards for their outstanding athletic abilities. They often come to college with a fairly high opinion of their ability and talent. When players have a high opinion of their existing abilities, it is often difficult to teach them a new system for playing basketball. If they are overfilled with pride in their own abilities, they may be resistant to learning a new role on a new team.

Humble people, however, are teachable people who realize that there is always more for them to learn. They are open and willing to learn new skills in the game of basketball. They are willing to acknowledge they can grow and increase in their basketball skills as well as in their life skills.

In every field of life, those who are filled with pride and arrogance are usually not open to new learning because they believe they know all there is to know about their area of work. Truly great people are those who are humble enough to be open to new growth and learning in their lives.

Genuine humility has been defined as realizing at the core of our being that we are not superior to anyone else and that we are not inferior to anyone else. Externally, we have differing abilities and talents, but as persons created in the image of God, we are all of equal value in the sight of God.

A History of Humility

When asked how these principles became such a significant part of the Butler athletic program, Coach Stevens refers to Butler's athletic director, Barry Collier.

At six foot seven, Barry Collier was a star athlete at Palmetto High School in Miami, Florida. After graduation he played basketball at Miami Dade, where he received a two-year Associate of Arts degree. Collier then transferred to Butler University, located in Indianapolis, Indiana, because he was deeply impressed with Hinkle Fieldhouse, Butler's huge basketball arena, and the importance of basketball in the Hoosier state. He played two years as center and forward at Butler on teams that were not particularly outstanding.

After graduation, Collier received his M.S. degree from Indiana University and then served as an assistant basketball coach at several different universities around the nation. In 1989, Collier returned to Butler University as the men's head basketball coach and served for eleven years.

The first two years as head coach were disappointing for Coach Collier. In his first year, the team won six games and lost twenty-two. The second year was not much better. Coach Collier and his team were very discouraged. So Collier went to see Coach Dick Bennett, who at the time was the head coach at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. Coach Bennett had been exceedingly successful as a basketball coach, and Collier hoped that he would learn some basketball strategies and secrets to help him improve his team.

Coach Bennett spent two days with Collier and Jim Larranaga, then coach at George Mason University. They talked about the underlying principles and values that coaches had to demonstrate and young players had to learn if they were to be successful on the basketball court and in life. It was from Coach Bennett that Collier learned the values of humility, passion, unity, servanthood, and thankfulness. These were principles that had guided Bennett as a coach for decades—from his earliest days teaching in public high schools on through to leading the University of Wisconsin to four appearances in the NCAA tournament. He coached the team to the Final Four in 2000. These virtues became the foundation of The Butler Way, even as they had proven to be a winning formula years earlier at different schools.

Inspiration for these virtues to become guiding principles in coaching began early for Bennett, when he was coaching at a high school in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. A former player had returned to the school in the mid-1960s to finish his training in graduate school. He then volunteered for Bennett and Bennett observed that the young man had a profound sense of peace about him, so profound that Bennett was compelled to ask where it came from. Then, in a quiet way he just talked about his Christian faith and how it had sustained him in good times and in bad times. From that point on, Bennett's faith took on a new dimension, as did his coaching.

Bennett had grown up Catholic in Pittsburgh, one of four boys in an Italian-American family. Mom stayed home with the kids. Dad worked in steel mills and later in a factory that made fire engines. Faith and hard work had long been cornerstones of life, he recalled. However, with a newfound connection between the two, Bennett soared as a coach. All of the schools were public universities where outward expression of religious values was not appropriate. Yet Bennett found a way through values-based coaching to live his faith.

Like Bennett, Coach Collier...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1426749147
• ISBN 13: 9781426749148
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
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