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.
BILL WALSHThese 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.
More Bill Walsh Quotes
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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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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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Everybody isn’t everybody.
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Everybody’s got an opinion. Leaders are paid to make a decision. The difference between offering an opinion and making a decision is the difference between working for the leader and being the leader.
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Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!
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A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don’t allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines
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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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Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.
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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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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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Strength of will – is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won’t go away, who won’t stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all.
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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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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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We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
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