NBA林書豪的信念~ 用在企業上
1.就算沒人相信,你仍要相信自己。
2.當機會來臨時,把握它。
3.家人永遠是你的支柱,你也要成為他們的支柱。
4.找到一個能讓你發揮的體系。
5.別忽視現在可能就在你隊上的好手。
6.人們愛的是你的本質,別試著成為某某人。
7.保持謙虛。
8.讓你身邊的人看起來也很棒,他們會永遠愛你。
9.別忘了幸運和命運在你生命中的重要性。
10.全力以赴。
Eric Jackson Forbes Feb 2012
What can all of
us learn from this young man — and how can we apply these same lessons to our
own lives when we go back to work on Monday morning?
1. Believe in yourself when no one else does. Lin’s only the
4th graduate from Harvard to make it to the NBA. He’s also one of only a
handful of Asian-Americans to make it. He was sent by the Knicks to play for
their D-League team 3 weeks ago in Erie,
PA. He’d already been cut by two other NBA teams before joining the
Knicks this year. You’ve got to believe in yourself, even when no one
else does.
2. Seize the opportunity when it comes up. Lin got to start
for the Knicks because they had to start him. They had too many injuries.
Baron Davis was gone. The other point guards were out. Carmelo
Anthony was injured. Amare Stoudemire had to leave the team because of a
family death. Lin could have squandered the opportunity and we would have
never have noticed. But he made the most of it. You never know when
opportunities are going to arise in life. Often, they’re when you least
expect them. Make the most of them. Don’t fritter them away.
3. Your family will always be there for you, so be there for them. It wasn’t until a
few days ago that Lin got his contract guaranteed by the Knicks for the rest of
the season. Before that, he could have been cut at any time. He had
to sleep on his brother’s couch on the Lower East Side to get by. His
family always believed in him and picked him up when he could have gotten down
on himself. That made him continue to believe. If you want your
family to believe in you like that, you’ve got to be there for them too when
they need it.
4. Find the system that works for your style. Lin isn’t Michael Jordan
or Kobe Bryant.
He’s not a pure scorer. He’s a passer and distributor – who can
also score very well. It didn’t work for him in Golden State or Houston
– where he was before landing at the Knicks. But Mike D’Antoni’s system
at the Knicks has been perfect for him to show off his strengths. You’ve
got to do your best to understand what your strengths are and then ensure that
you’re in a system (a job or organization or industry) that is a good fit for
those strengths. Otherwise, people overlook the talents you bring to the
table.
5. Don’t overlook talent that might exist around you today on your team. You probably
manage people at your own company today. Are you sure you don’t have a
Jeremy Lin living among you now? How do you know that “Mike” couldn’t do
amazing things if you gave him a new project to run with? How do you know
“Sarah” isn’t the right person to take the open job in London that you’ve been
talking over with your colleagues? We put people around us in boxes.
He’s from Harvard. He’s Asian-American. Not sure he can play.
How many assumptions have you made about talent around you? Don’t
be like the General Managers in Golden State and Houston, and let talent slip
through your fingers. With all their money, scouts, and testing, they
didn’t have a clue what they had in their hands. Do you know what your
people (or even yourself) is really capable of? Take off the blinders
of assumptions you wear when you look at the world.
6. People will love you for being an original, not trying to be someone
else. You’ve got to be you. You can’t be some 2nd rate copy of Michael
Jordan. There will never be another Michael Jordan. Just be Jeremy
Lin — yourself. Whatever that is. That doesn’t mean you don’t work
hard — it just means you find what you’re good at and do it. Fans will
love you for being you, just like they love Jeremy Lin. Judy Garland said
it best:
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate
version of somebody else.
7. Stay humble. If you one day are lucky enough to
have newspapers want to put you on the cover in order to sell more, don’t let
it get to your head. It’s been remarkable watching how humble Lin remains
through all this media frenzy. It makes his teammates and fans love him
that much more.
8. When you make others around you look good, they will love you forever. I didn’t know
how good Tyson Chandler was, until I saw him playing with Jeremy Lin. Lin
has set Chandler up many times over the last week for easy dunks because he
drew the defense and then passed the ball. That’s partly why the Knicks
are playing so well. They are all working harder to share the ball with
others. And it’s beautiful to watch. And when the media swarms Lin,
he tells them how good his teammates are. Do the same with your peers and
reports.
9. Never forget about the importance of luck or fate in life. Some people
believe in God, some in destiny, some in luck. Whatever you believe in,
be grateful for it.
10. Work your butt off. Lin couldn’t have seized his
opportunity if he hadn’t worked like crazy for years perfecting his skills.
There are no short cuts to hard work. Success is a by product of that.
If you’ve got a Tiger Mom who’s always pushed you to work hard, great.
If not, let your conscience be your own Tiger Mom! Get up early,
stay up late. Nobody gave Lin any free passes. Why should you get any?
You can only control what you control and that means you’ve got to work
harder than anyone else you know.
I hope the
Lin-sanity continues. And I hope we all can apply these lessons to our
own work and family life.
There’s a great
line from a New York Times article on Lin and his faith which is worth
it for all of us to remember (from Romans 5:3-5):
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