182 Friendship, Footy, and What's Next? | Wallabies James Slipper & Nic White
About this episode
James Slipper and Nic White discuss their deep friendship and the lessons learned in performance and leadership from their rugby careers.
How do you build a team where people will run through a wall for each other? Not metaphorically. Literally. James Slipper , the most capped Wallaby of all time. Nic White , the third most capped scrum half in Australian rugby history. Two men who've spent more time with each other than with their families, who've argued hard on the training paddock and sat next to each other every Tuesday team dinner for over a decade. Their answer isn't team building. It isn't trust falls. It isn't a values poster on the wall. Slips opens up on his 2018 rock bottom and the rebuild that gave him the longest career of any Wallaby in history. Nic on the chip on his shoulder that ran most of his career, the sepsis that nearly took him out after he hung up the boots, and the word he never used until now: fragile. Two careers. One friendship. A blueprint for the leaders who are tired of culture being a buzzword. 03:00 — How it started: Nic's first run-in with Slips on the field 05:10 — The relationship that goes deeper than friendship and why that matters for performance 07:30 — "If we brought corporates to watch a Wallabies camp, they'd go... do you guys even like each other?" 10:00 — The Tuesday…
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