As a follow on from my post from the other day called ‘Always be the note taker’, I ran into similar idea that I liked a lot: Carry the water.
When I played football or rugby in school, no one wanted to carry the water.
If you carried the water, you weren’t in the starting line up. It was a job for people on the bench.
When the heroes scored a goal or a try, you were the one to lug the 12 bottles over to them so they could hydrate until the game restarted.
You got no thanks. You rarely got a glance.
However, the book ‘The Captain Class’ changed my mind.
Sam Walker, its author, puts it well: “Most people believe the leader of a team is the person who does something spectacular when the chips are down. However, great captains lower themselves in relation to the group whenever possible in order to earn the moral authority to drive them forward in tough moments. The easiest way to lead is to serve.”
I then came across an image of Richie McCaw, arguably the greatest rugby player of all time. He was injured in one of the pool matches of the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Guess what he was doing?
