Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Prepare to win....


Years ago, the City of Las Vegas parks and recreation department established a Corporate Challenge: companies were invited to compete in a myriad of Olympic-like games that pitted company teams against one another.  One of the events was the “tug-o-war” and the teams traditionally got their biggest and strongest people together to compete: the rules created a weight limit for each team.  We had a VP of Hotel Ops who was a 4-letter athlete in college and he suggested we recruit smaller people to the team: his theory was that more legs and backs combined would overcome teams with bigger but fewer people.  We practiced for a month – more that we’d ever done before, perfecting the total team’s ability to dig in and resist an opponent’s efforts. We had the will to win as well as the will to prepare to win.  And win we did. Think outside the box when building work teams and give them the time and encouragement to prepare today.


Paul "Bear" Bryant (1913 – 1983): American college football player and coach. He was best known as the head coach of the University of Alabama football team.

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