March Madness comes to a close tonight. Larrañaga’s Miami Hurricanes made it all the way to the Final Four of the Men’s NCAA Basketball championship this year.
· The game of sport,
· Like the game of life,
· Isn’t about winning or losing.
· It’s about how you play the game.
I love listening to professional sports coaches – everything is clear and motivating. That’s a winning recipe in sports and business – frankly, more managers and supervisors should watch and learn from professional sport coaches. In today’s quote, Coach Larrañaga talks about keeping your eye on the game at hand, and not the score. In business, that might translate to dotting your I’s and crossing your T’s when working on a project or just doing your job – if every task is done right, the finished work will be done right too. Consider how coaches put together play books – something like that would work great in business too. Creating diagrams and narratives about every task, and how those interact with other employees and other departments. You watch these coaches cheering on the sidelines, actively giving instructions, and making sure everyone plays. Take a page from their playbook: walk the floors where you work, talking to your employees, catching them doing things right, coaching them when improvement is needed, being proud of them and their work, and keeping everyone’s eyes on the game. Be a coach to your employees today.
James Joseph Larrañaga (born 1949): American college basketball coach who has won several national Coach of the Year awards and over 700 games as a head coach since the late 1970s.
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