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Ken Dryden: on leadership, the playoffs and hockey safety "It's a great time of year to be involved in hockey," he said. "When you SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER get to the playoffs and there's 16 teams left standing. 10 objectively have a Ken Dryden believes true leadership chance and six think they do. You dis lies in one's ability to listen and to get cover yourself and there are nasty sur into the skin of others. prises along the way. Over a period of The President of the Toronto Maple eight weeks, you've got to find a way to Leafs spoke of leadership, the playoffs get better." and the controversial topics of helmet On the devastating visors and the eye injury recently Lindros/Clarke feud in suffered by Leaf Oakville last week. defenceman, Bryan Dryden, 53, was a Berard, Dryden spoke natural choice as of the first game the keynote speaker at the team played follow Junior Achievement ing the accident. Governors' Dinner and "Four days later 2nd annual Halton when we played Business Hall of Fame Chicago, it was an Induction. The former emotional experience. National Hockey It was unbelievably League goalie forged quiet at the Air the path to the Stanley Canada Centre that Cup for the Montreal night. We discovered Canadians six times in we felt lousy. Wearing eight seasons. a visor cannot be Following his retire imposed at this stage. ment in 1979, he wrote But without being two best-selling books able to predict the and initiated The Ken future, 10 years from Dryden Scholarship for now, everyone will be students from foster wearing a visor and in and group homes to 20 years, people study at university or Photo by Peter C. McCusker won't believe you college. He also served as the Ontario Youth Toronto M aple Leaf President Ken Dryden, and Michael Shepherd, could ever play with Commissioner, coordi C hairm an JA Halton, congratulate Bill Line of Burlington Canadian out wearing one. It nating the province's Tire on his induction into the Jun ior Achievement Hall of Fame during will be as natural as wearing a mask or a youth employment and ceremonies in Oakville last week. helmet today." training programs from As for the much-pub1984 to 1986. "Leadership gets talked about in ways make you look like a genius through licized "feud" between Philadelphia I find awkward," he said. "It's difficult to their own success, he says. It's the reason Flyers general manager, Bobby Clarke define. It's a shouted word when it why coaches get fired - they stop listen and former captain. Eric Lindros. Dryden ing. The best leaders know the innermost declared it "odd." should be whispered." "Coaches are notorious in the pres Dryden recalled learning a leadership need of their audience and make talking lesson a few years ago when he was a to 10,000 people the same as talking to sure of the playoffs, for creating a dis traction to give players a break for a day part of team of senior executives who one individual. "Putting yourself in the other person's or two," he said. "But I don't see this as met at the four-day "Scenarios of the Future" workshop just north of Montreal. skin is essential in leading, coaching, that kind of distraction. One of Scotty The goal was to talk about the future of teaching, managing and parenting," he Bowman's lines is to know every crutch said. "Leadership is helping people get a player has, knowing that if something Canada. goes wrong, they're going to use that as "Here were 25 people with very where they want to go. Real leadership is an excuse to enable to them to fail. This strong visions of the country and within undeniably a team sport. You can't do it debate creates a crutch and that's never a few hours, they were shocked to realize by yourself. You need everyone to share useful. If Philly doesn't win the cup. it all their visions were different. Where your ambition. You also need to orches will be easy to point fingers." was the common ground? It clearly was trate for something more. You say to yourself, `why not us?' It's an approach a struggle and three days passed before For coverage on the there was a sense that no one was listen (Leaf coach) Pat Quinn has usol for inductees into the Halton years." ing." With the 1999-2000 season playoffs Once they discussed how and why Business Hall of Fame, See they arrived at their conclusions, they in their infancy. Dryden reflected on the entire experience. found common ground, he said, but lis Business-page C3 m Your One Stop Furniture Location for Newborns to Teens ^ / By Claudia D'Souza tening to each other was key. 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