Some quotes hit you harder than others.
“I say this to every young manager: from the moment you start, (the job) tries to pull you away from everything you believe in.”
Great advice by Ange Postecoglou on managing results with philosophy.
Coaching is hard. Having personal, interpersonal or team conflict while coaching is even harder.
And when things aren’t going “well” (whatever that means to you)…
It’s easy to slip up, to lose perspective, to make a finite decision when the better choice is the infinite one.
At times, being a coach is like being the C-level executives at Blackberry when the iPhone was introduced to the market by Apple.
Don’t pull a Blackberry.
Avoid the Finite Move in the Infinite Game
I’m going to give you the cliff notes of what happened to Blackberry when the iPhone came out using the constraints of 2 memes:
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