‘Lead, or be led’, is how Neil Craig, this week’s guest ‘In the Arena’, describes it. Choose to lead, or allow the challenge of your circumstance to lead you.

In the podcast, he speaks about the two egos leaders need to succeed in high-stakes environments, and I love this insight.

Neil Craig is a man with more experience in the broadest range of elite sport, and has made growth a practice.

Whether it be as the Senior Coach of the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL after a storied playing career, as Eddie Jones’ ‘truth teller’ when Eddie was coaching both England and Australia in Rugby World Cups, or working with legendary cycling coach Charlie Walsh in Olympic campaigns, Neil provides the most profound insights that can only come from someone who brings curiosity and courage to every conversation, and the generosity I so value in our friendship.

As a coach of coaches, Neil Craig is the ‘second set of eyes’ to coaches and leaders seeking to perform at the highest level, as another coach’s coach, Cody Royle, wonderfully describes it in his fantastic book of the same name.

As leaders, we all need a ‘second set of eyes’.

Play on!

Cam.