Re: Murphy to lead again in 2017
Reply #63 –
Leading Teams is something I cant get a handle on in terms of results...Geelong attribute their early success in their recent premierships in part to Leading teams yet a club like Melbourne went through the same program and had no success especially in developing leaders etc.
I remember Jason Akermanis writing articles and saying it was a negative experience and only got players offside when they received frank assessments from team-mates....Gary Ablett jr wasnt a fan either and I thought straight away about his father and how he would have coped...
Not sure how Leading teams has evolved in delivering their programs and if they do cater for Individuals like Aker, Ablett etc but it wouldnt be an easy tasks with all the different personalities that go to make up a football club.
I'm of the opinion Leaders are born Leaders rather than created through intense development programs etc...sure you can make them better by training but there is something intrinsic that Leaders have in their makeup that Non Leaders dont IMO...
I dont see Marc Murphy as that natural born leader...
I suspect that's old thinking EB.
Many years ago the green machine tried to make me a leader and came up short. I remember my guidance officer saying that I readily assumed a leadership role when playing footy or basketball but it wasn't evident when leading men in combat (thankfully only ever with blanks). Fast forward ten years and the fundamentals of leadership started to take shape. With training and experience I became a more than competent leader of a diverse and quite challenging team of 50 people; not bad for a shy introvert lacking in self confidence.
I think that many folk have the potential to be leaders but need some work before they can realise that potential.
From what I'm hearing, Murphy is a born leader who has thrived under the leadership development program. John Murphy wasn't a bad skipper and, whether it's nature or nurture, that seems to have given Marc a head start.