This book summary provides leadership lessons from All Blacks rugby. It discusses concepts like embracing expectations, developing high operating standards, and creating a learning environment. Leaders are encouraged to connect their team to a higher purpose, develop team culture, and push outside their comfort zone through sacrifice. Rituals and shared language can bind a team together. The overall message is that leaders should focus on continual improvement, developing character, and establishing a legacy greater than any individual.

1. Book Summary
Legacy
JAMES KERR

2. Character:
“Sweep the Sheds — because no one looks after the All
Blacks — the All Blacks looks after themselves.” Don’t be too
big to do the small things.

3. Adapt:
Go for the gap — when you are on top of your game, change
your game.
Create the highest possible operating standards, develop the
character of your players, develop the culture of your team
and the Score Takes Care of Itself."

4. Purpose:
Play with Purpose, ‘ASK WHY?’
Understand the purpose for which you are playing. Leaders
connect personal meaning to a higher purpose.
Better People Make Better Leaders

5. Responsibility :
Be a leader, not a follower — pass the ball.
Leaders create leaders.

6. Learn:
Create a learning environment.
Leaders are teachers.
Find 100 things that can be done just 1% better, this marginal
gain creates an incremental and cumulative advantage in
performance and results.
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7. Whanau:
Select an individual on character
Follow the spearhead.
The strength of the wolf is the pack, the strength of the pack
is the wolf.

8. Expectations:
Embrace Expectations

9. Preparation:
Train to win.
Practice with intensity. When you do that, you don’t think,
you just do. You have clarity. Accuracy. Intensity.

10. Pressure:
Bad decisions are not made through a lack of skill or innate
judgement: they are made because of an inability to handle
pressure at the pivotal moment.
Be a BLUE HEAD: Loose, expressive, in the moment, calm,
clear, accurate, on task.
Create your own pressure releasing mechanisms.

11. Authenticity:
Keep it real.
Leaders need to create an environment that encourages safe-
conflict, honesty, and integrity, in which people genuinely
know one another.

12. Sacrifice:
Find something you would die for and give your life to it.
There are no crowns waiting in the extra mile, on the extra
mile we are on our own.
Push yourself outside of your comfort zone.

13. Language:
Develop a language, vocabulary and a set of believes that
bind the group together.

14. Rituals:
Ritualize to Actualize.
Create a culture. Inspiring leaders establish rituals to connect
their team to its core narrative.

15. Whakapapa:
Be a Good Ancestor. Plant trees you’ll never see.

16. Legacy:
Write your Legacy. This is your time.