Highlights from The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
Highlights from this book
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Do all the right things to precision and “the score will take care of itself” sums
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He told me this addressed his concern that most people simply go through the motions at their jobs, just putting in time—existing—with a “business as usual” attitude. Not if you’re on his team.
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Standard of Performance. It was a way of doing things, a leadership philosophy that has as much to do with core values, principles, and ideals as with blocking, tackling, and passing; more to do with the mental than with the physical
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Regardless of your specific job, it is vital to our team that you do that job at the highest possible level in all its various aspects, both mental and physical (i.e., good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent).
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honor the direct connection between details and improvement, and relentlessly seek the latter;
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promote internal communication that is both open and substantive
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All of this increasingly demonstrated to others and to ourselves that we were on top of things, neither sloppy nor inattentive,
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has a transformative effect. Bonding within the organization takes place as one individual and then another steps up and raises his or her level of commitment, sacrifice, and performance. They demand and expect a lot of one another. That’s extremely important because when you know that your peers—the others in the organization—demand and expect a lot out of you and you, in turn, out of them, that’s when the sky’s the limit.