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Word about what we were doing had started to spread in the football circles. They saw we were near the top of the national rankings in most offensive categories. Coaches from all over the country said they wanted to come in and watch film and talk football with us, or have us visit them to share ideas. We met with coaches from Auburn, Florida State, and Georgia, among others. We were pretty open about explaining what we were doing. After all, it’s all on film, and for the most part college coaches are typically open about sharing this stuff. I suspect it’s partially because they aspire to coach at other places and bigger schools, and they’re eager to let others know how good they are. We were happy enough to talk because we loved what we did, plus, we figured we could learn from them, too.

Swing Your Sword

Mike Leach, Bruce Feldman, Michael Lewis, and Peter Berg

I was doing some consulting for a tech company that decided to let go of its top performer because she had a reputation for being “difficult.” She didn’t get along with everyone, they said; she pushed others too hard and often made people uncomfortable by insisting that everyone needed to do better. Someday maybe I’ll understand why that’s a bad thing; I’ll take difficult and effective over easy and incompetent any day. But there were ego and personality issues, probably because the pressure and tension were too high, and management decided it would be better for “morale” to let her go, along with her huge book of business and years of experience. And within a month of her departure, morale and productivity actually got worse, because those who had the issues with her suddenly had no one to blame for their poor performances, and no one to hold them accountable. And eventually, her former bosses realized that the person who was the “problem” was actually the one holding it all together. The “thorn” in everyone’s side was the most important part of the rose. A rose with thorns lives longer than a rose with the thorns clipped. When

Winning

Tim S. Grover

The truth is that everything starts from the top. What determines your failure or success is your style of leadership and the chain of command that you design. If your orders are vague and halfhearted, by the time they reach the field they will be meaningless. Let people work unsupervised and they will revert to their natural selfishness: they will see in your orders what they want to see, and their behavior will promote their own interests.

The 33 Strategies of War

Robert Greene, Joost Elffers

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