Power Points #1

Dan Kennedy is a man I admire. He teaches business fundamentals in marketing and copywriting (so I can give his due, I will always include his website when I mention him, which is www.dankennedy.com).

I admire Dan for many reasons, including the fact that he has a series of books called, "The No B.S." Series and another one called, "Brass Balls."

That Ultimate Officials -- no BS with a touch of Brass Balls.

FACT #1: Dan was kind enought to share power points from his hundreds of presentations to business leaders all over the nation. I will be adapting some of these power points.

FACT #2: I hate power point presentations at seminars and camps. Blah, blah, blah. My mother-in-law could read those power points to an audience.

*******THESE ARE REAL POWER POINTS -- Useful, to the point, and entertaining**********

NO SLEEPING HERE!

Hockey imitates life and vice versa. Talents learned in hockey can help in real life and vice versa.

Power Point #1: Power of "A Starving Crowd"

"Gary Halbert explains a starving crowd this way: if I offer to set you up in the fast food biz, with a hamburger joint, and you can have any one special advantage you want, what'll it be? A clown, special sauce, great burgers, a big ad budget? He says he'll take "a starving crowd.""

I experienced a "starving crowd" in hockey, particularly in Minnesota, in the mid-1990's for hockey officials. There were so many guys I came up through the program with that were great athletes and people. My regional camp in 1995 at the Western Regional produced an NHLer, 4 WCHA officials, 4 IIHF officials, and many, many other great USA hockey, high school games, tournaments and championships. We were "a starving crowd". We did what was necessary.

Too many officials today want everything handed to me. Makes me sick to my stomach. So, I am searching for "a starving crowd".

Do you have any experiences with officials who suffer from a sense of entitlement?

Full Extension and Full Recovery

Life and hockey are intermingled. You can learn about one to be better in the other.

From time to time I will link to other stories/blogs/interesting tidbits.

Today's link is to a newsletter I receive called "The NO B.S Newsletter" by Bill Glazer and Dan Kennedy. Here is a link to a paragraph written by Dan Kennedy:

"Into every day a little rain...rushing past me, leaving the SuperConference, the managing partner of the Renegade Cattle Company, Gold+ Luxury Member Jill Wolforth said, "Hi. Gotta run. One of your cows died." There is nothing worse in the livestock business than the news the some of your livestock is no longer alive. And I wasn't even invited to the barbeque. But I'm very big on dealing with bad news straight up, without spoonful of sugar added. One of my favorite writers about entrepreneurship, Carter Henderson, makes the observation that business is about confronting an endless parade of problems...disappointments...people bearing bad news. If you're not up to that, you may very well need to exit stage left. RESILIENCY is the numero uno characteristic required: take a hit, re-focus fast, and get on with the fixing or firing or fleeing or forgetting or whatever other productive response may be possible. When I was talking with George Ross off-stage, he seconded what Apprentice winner Bill Rancic and runner-up Kristi Frank had already told me: the majority can't handle the PRESSURE TO PERFORM, especially when confronted with adversity. And superior education, superior intellect, superior talent all wash away and prove irrelevant if in possession of someone who can't handle the pressure. Every resource that can be marshaled should be marshaled, but ultimately achievement reflects character more than aptitude or advantage. Every time I'm at an event like the one held last month, and around leaders like Gene Simmons and George Ross, I come away with reinforced certainty that modeling behavior is the key of keys, and wondering whether most people are too obsessed with collecting tactics and techniques, too little focused on collecting behavioral characteristics."


How does this apply to officiating?

A. Refereeing is a lot like business in that you have to deal with disappointments, setbacks, road blocks, hurdles, assignors, politics, (d) all of the above...Do you have the wherewithall to handle this?

B. Whose behavior are you modelling? Anybody's???

C. Can you handle the PRESSURE TO PERFORM?

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