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BILL WALSHIn evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough.
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If you don’t have these feelings, I do not know how you can lead anyone. I have spent many sleepless nights trying to figure out how I was going to phase out certain players for whom I had strong feelings, but that was my job. I wasn’t hired to do anything but win.
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For me the starting point for everything – before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience – is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you’re dead in the water.
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Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.
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90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.
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Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it’s completely crazy is completely crazy.
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We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
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There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it’s taking on those you lead.
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Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
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My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.
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In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough.
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Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!
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These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.
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You can make a point without being personal. Don’t insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less
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A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.
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You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.
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