Leadership and Tim Tebow (Yes, another blog on Tim Tebow)!
Disclaimer: I am a University of Florida graduate, which is where Tim Tebow played his college football.
Google Tim Tebow today. You will have 194,000,000 million links from which to choose.
Here are a few of my favorites:
"Believers, critics, People magazine ... everyone's talking Tim Tebow" - The Sporting News
"Tebowing is so hot it's now a word" - NPR Blog
"The Ten Commandments of Tim Tebow: Explaining His Stunning Success" - Yahoo! Sports
There are so many ways to speak about Tim Tebow: Team Player, Humble, and so on...
But I want to focus on...you guessed it...his leadership skills. Here are 3 things you can do as a leader to be more like Tim Tebow.
1. Always share the credit
Watch any Tim Tebow press conference, and you will hear the press begging, clamoring and pleading for him to talk himself up...to share how he won the game for his team...to gloat...
and Tebow never bites. He continues to talk about team and togetherness and all for one and one for all.
He does not disparage his teammates if they make a mistake, and they reciprocate - which is good, since Tebow makes many more mistakes than his team.
2. Always believe until the end
I am a Tebow fan, and I still thought yesterday's win was impossible. But I watched, and saw the improbable. When you think your team is out of it, keep believing until the 5:00 whistle blows.
3. Always keep your priorities in order
I know, I know...God does not care about football. But he does care about people, and I know that he is a big fan of those of us who teach people about him and his son Jesus Christ.
Sometimes we are stressed out as a leader, and we are looking to the wrong things for help. Perhaps we should just go to the source when we are at a loss - and He will be there for us.
Those three ideas should help you be a better leader...and if they don't, then you can always try Tebowing after a big team meeting
Google Tim Tebow today. You will have 194,000,000 million links from which to choose.
Here are a few of my favorites:
"Believers, critics, People magazine ... everyone's talking Tim Tebow" - The Sporting News
"Tebowing is so hot it's now a word" - NPR Blog
"The Ten Commandments of Tim Tebow: Explaining His Stunning Success" - Yahoo! Sports
There are so many ways to speak about Tim Tebow: Team Player, Humble, and so on...
But I want to focus on...you guessed it...his leadership skills. Here are 3 things you can do as a leader to be more like Tim Tebow.
1. Always share the credit
Watch any Tim Tebow press conference, and you will hear the press begging, clamoring and pleading for him to talk himself up...to share how he won the game for his team...to gloat...
and Tebow never bites. He continues to talk about team and togetherness and all for one and one for all.
He does not disparage his teammates if they make a mistake, and they reciprocate - which is good, since Tebow makes many more mistakes than his team.
2. Always believe until the end
I am a Tebow fan, and I still thought yesterday's win was impossible. But I watched, and saw the improbable. When you think your team is out of it, keep believing until the 5:00 whistle blows.
3. Always keep your priorities in order
I know, I know...God does not care about football. But he does care about people, and I know that he is a big fan of those of us who teach people about him and his son Jesus Christ.
Sometimes we are stressed out as a leader, and we are looking to the wrong things for help. Perhaps we should just go to the source when we are at a loss - and He will be there for us.
Those three ideas should help you be a better leader...and if they don't, then you can always try Tebowing after a big team meeting
Great post, Pete. Your friend, Sean Carpenter, gave me a link to your post because he and I had a great conversation about Tim Tebow on Twitter that led me to write my own post about Tebow. Feel free to read it at: callingraleighhome.com
Tebow is a leader because he puts his teammates into situations where they can contribute to the goal they want to achieve. He brings out the best in others. As Tebow said after the win against the Bears "my teammates make me look better than I am." Tebow's humbleness that allows him to share the credit with his teammates is quite remarkable in such a young man.
It's important for people of all ages, but especially younger ones, to find good people to emulate. It would be wise for anyone to look at the characteristics of Tim Tebow and use his examples as something to follow.
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