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.
BILL WALSHEverybody isn’t everybody.
More Bill Walsh Quotes
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Afford each person the same respect, support, and fair treatment you would expect if your roles were reversed. Deal with people individually, not as objects who are part of a herd-that’s the critical factor.
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By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.
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Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.
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Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced by tough competition.
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When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, ‘Do you know how to tell if you’re doing the job?’ As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: ‘If you’re up at 3 A.M.
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Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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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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As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone
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Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
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Everybody isn’t everybody.
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Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you
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On occasion I omit commas. On occasion, I use them. (The more you know about English, the less you’re likely to think there are unbreakable “rules” for a lot of these things.)
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The culture precedes positive results. It doesn’t get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they’re champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.
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We all know gifs are pronounced “jifs,” right? Their creator says so, damn it!
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If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
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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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I’m not one of those “omg texting kids rite bad” alarmists. I just think there’s an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms.
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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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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
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If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!
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Machines aren’t replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper
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Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!
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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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If I have any talent, it’s in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.
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The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
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I have a sense of humor. I usually come off as very serious, but I definitely have a dry sense of humor.
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