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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.

Bill Walsh

Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!
BILL WALSH

Believe Forever Mentor
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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Leader Possible Running Time Two
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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Communication Fighting Sports
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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Diffuse Diverted Ego Insensitive Manifestations
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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Lists Pixels Publisher Trying
Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.
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Challenges Consistent Effort
Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you’re offering.
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Enthusiasm Interest Offering
Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.
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Country Game Path Player Purpose Vision
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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Ethics Philosophy Water Work
We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
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Motivational Player Sports
Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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Attitude Bad Talent
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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Confidence Desire Fierce Rough Translate
I often think about the class differences involved in “jobs” vs. “careers.”
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Class Jobs Thinking
Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
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Country Fighting Game Player Winning
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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Knows Thinking Unbreakable
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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Computer Shots Unnecessary

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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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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