..It's time to play ball!

One of my lesser-used achieving styles is competitiveness. While I doubt that the spirit of competition will lead us to the next level of effective leadership in the world, there are lessons that someone like me needs to learn from this approach.

I can be an avid baseball fan during playoff season, and I am especially excited this year because “my team”, the Los Angeles Dodgers, has emerged as one of the contenders for the title of world champion. As we move towards post-season play, I hear the language of competitiveness used more and more often, and I notice how people are inspired and moved by this possibility of winning. So in an effort to connect with this energy, I am going to continue this discussion using baseball wisdom articulated by Yogi Berra to illustrate the concepts of leading up, building trust, and learning to lead in all domains of life in order to improve leadership effectiveness.