EGO Loses the Game

Week 2 of the NFL season is over after tonight’s Monday night game.  And what a week it’s been!  A business lesson jumps out at me.  It’s called DO YOUR JOB!  It’s a recurring mantra among football coaches, as well as among corporate CEOs, presidents of volunteer boards, and soccer moms in charge of assigning…

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Did You Inherit a Bad Team? Learn from Tebow.

You start a new job as a leader of people—a manager: entry-level, mid-level, or executive.  You “inherit” a group of people:  employees you did not hire.  They are already “trained” in their jobs—you did not get to train them.  They have gone through several managers before you came along.  They did not fare very well. …

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