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About Leigh Matthews
Leigh Matthews stands alone in a world to which millions have been drawn. In Australian Football, he is all but peerless. As a player he stood alone. A legend in the Australian Football League's Hall Of Fame, eight-times a best and fairest winner, four times a premiership player, a premiership captain...it is a record without parallel.
If his biography ended there it would be rich enough to leave him one of the game's all-time greats. But it doesn't. He stepped into the game's coaching ranks after his stellar playing career with Hawthorn ended.
After 32 years without premiership success it was Leigh Matthews who, along with his 1990 Collingwood team, broke football's most celebrated drought. The Brisbane Lions had been desperately searching for credibility since joining the AFL in 1987. In 1999 they turned to Leigh Matthews.
Leigh took the Lions to their first flag in 2001. He followed it up with back-to-back success the following year. In 2003 Brisbane set about doing what no team had done for 50 years - winning three premierships in a row. He and his team delivered in the most stunning of circumstances.
As brilliant as Leigh Matthews was as an individual within the group as a player at Hawthorn, the hallmark of his career has been his capacity to unite groups and make them better. He was a cornerstone of Hawthorn's arrival as a VFL heavyweight in the '70s and '80s, he did what many before him had failed to do at Collingwood and his record at Brisbane is destined to be the stuff of folklore.
Leigh knows how to win, but even more importantly, he knows how to have others share his vision. He knows how to convince team-mates to commit to an ideal, to realise an ambition and how best to prepare to achieve whatever it is his assembled group has in mind. His fundamentals are universal.
They have worked in high-pressure world of football where team-building is the only way to prosper. Those same philosophies comfortably cross over into the business world. If you are seeking to make your operation the best it can possibly be, then the views, opinions, examples and strategies of Leigh Matthews are more than interesting. They are essential
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