I wanna be like Mike!

In The Last Dance, a good photograph can be taken of what in the personal, family, and business worlds means teamwork and leadership focused on reaching the stated objectives. It is a mentality that fits in "playing to win" and around managing a strategy of hard work, analysis and not giving up in the face of adversity.

Playing to win sounds good from any angle you look at it. Winning in everything is a marked ideal for many as the basis of success. It is an intelligent approach to an organizational decision, in this case, the business decision where it is at stake to be a leader or to be second. However, for this model of winning, we must take into account, in my opinion, 4 decisions to follow before playing to win.

1. The right people: To play to win we must bring the best talent. Just as the Chicago Bulls brought the team a controversial Dennis Rodman, knowing the talent they acquired, despite the hard touch of his personality, he stood out as the best player in his defensive position. The right people are vital to carry out the tasks in such a way as to advance the goal of winning.

2. Strategy: For me, this part is not the grand design of a complex plan. It is to align the main values of the team with the actions by which it moves and ensure that there is an understanding of each player and their role to advance strategically. The Chicago Bulls played the TRIANGLE strategy, plain and simple. If there is a very complicated strategy to understand or adapt, the team will not play to win, it will play to review the strategy and not get out of there, they will be like a dog trying to bite its own tail.

3. Execution: For me, seeing Michael Jordan lead his team, was seeing a person who always took responsibility for the execution of his decisions when executing on the field. Playing to win is partly playing with the latent risk of losing. However, if you take responsibility as part of the team, you have the peace of mind of giving everything in the execution.

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4. Conversion: It is useless to play to win if each opportunity that arises does not become an action that builds a step to the main objective in a world where it is critical, where you have to be reacting to factors that most of the time are not being controlled.

This is the last dance in a world that changed less than 90 days ago, for better or for worse. The questions that arise today are how to adapt to a new version of doing business, of relating and above all of living our daily life. We say goodbye to a form that was not even outdated and welcome it to a new one that brings significant challenges.

In this new way of living, it is also worth PLAYING to WIN and start dancing to a new rhythm!