{"id":2131,"date":"2020-07-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/podcast-at-home-with-leaders-sir-andrew-strauss\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:16:37","slug":"podcast-at-home-with-leaders-sir-andrew-strauss","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/podcast-at-home-with-leaders-sir-andrew-strauss\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Performance Podcast: At Home With Leaders – Sir Andrew Strauss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\u201cWinning is not a good thing to think of as a goal,\u201d says former England cricket captain Sir Andrew Strauss.<\/h4>\n
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\u201cLook,\u201d he clarifies, \u201cyou have to win – in high performance sport you can\u2019t go too long without winning and remain in position. Winning has to be a focus – but it\u2019s got to be part of something bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strauss, who chairs the England & Wales Cricket Board [ECB] cricket committee, is speaking of the moment that his England team, in 2011, reached No1 in the International Cricket Council [ICC] Test team world rankings and the accompanying sense of anticlimax.<\/p>\n

It is an issue he discusses during this episode of At Home With Leaders with co-hosts Matthew Stone, Leaders\u2019 Senior Product Manager, and sports psychologist and consultant Michael Caulfield, whose clients include Brentford FC, Northampton Saints RFC and Hampshire CCC.<\/p>\n

Strauss also chats about:<\/p>\n

– His time as Director of Cricket at the ECB between 2015 and 2018 [15:30];<\/p>\n

– Why leadership can be lonely [26:30];<\/p>\n

– Coping with criticism and media scrutiny [28:00];<\/p>\n

– Setting up the Ruth Strauss Foundation<\/u><\/a> in honour of his late wife, whom he lost to lung cancer [33:00].<\/p>\n