THE LOMBARDI RULES in C#

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Offer people meaning If you don t, someone else will Keep enormous pressure on But stay within the individual and organizational breaking points Motivate the group Find ways to move people en masse Counter expectations Sometimes, the least expected motivational device is the best Motivate the individual Nothing, after all, is more personal Win respect; affection may follow Respect motivates Win their respect first Motivate by inches Better to begin with small victories than large frustrations Go where the wisdom is People want to help you and the organization succeed It motivates them

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inutes before the kickoff for Super Bowl II, Coach Lombardi called his players together and made a short speech This is what he said: It s very difficult for me to say anything Anything I say would be repetitious This is our 23rd game this year I don t know anything else I could tell this team Boys, you are a good football team You are a proud football team You are the world champions of the National Football League, for the third time in a row, for the first time in the history of the National Football League That s a great thing to be proud of But let me just say this: All the glory, everything you ve had is going to be small in comparison to winning this one This is a great thing for you You re the only team in the history of the National Football League to ever have this opportunity to win the Super Bowl twice Boys, I tell you I d be so proud of that, I just fill myself up with myself I just get bigger and bigger It s not going to come easy This is a club that s gonna hit you They re gonna try and hit you, and you ve got to take it out of them You ve got to be 40 tigers out there That s all Just run Just block and tackle If you do that, there s no question what the answer s going to be in this ball game Keep your poise You ve faced them

all There s nothing they can show you out there you haven t faced a hundred times before Right This locker room speech, short as it is, embodies many of the leadership elements emphasized in this book Vision: You re the only team in the history of the NFL to ever have this opportunity to win the Super Bowl twice Pride: You are a proud football team Challenge: This is a club that s gonna hit you Discipline: Keep your poise Mental toughness: They re gonna try and hit you, and you ve got to take it out of them Motivation/Inspiration: everything you ve done is going to be small compared to this Excellence: You are the World Champions Passion: You ve got to be 40 tigers out there Confidence: There s nothing they can show you out there you haven t faced a hundred times Commitment: It s not going to come easy Results: If you do that, there s no question what the answer s going to be in this ball game This brings us to the final element of Lombardi s leadership model: results, the answer, the outcome, the ultimate effect It all comes down to this all-important consequence of your leadership abilities The absence of results renders your leadership meaningless Bookstores are full of the debate about organizational structure: hierarchical or flat, centralized or decentralized, divisional or nondivisional, and everything in between Yet it s not structure, but results, that truly make a leader Leadership is not a position; it s a process that produces the desired results If you don t produce results if you can t execute you are not a leader

Some of us will do our jobs well and some of will not, but we will all be judged on one thing: the result

Leaders get paid for results, not for being right Results come from mistakes being wrong and leaders must possess Lombardi s mental toughness to handle mistakes, take accountability for them, and quickly abandon those efforts that fail to produce results

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If you are right all the time, you are not taking enough risks Results require a willingness to act, even if you are unsure of what lies ahead Only through action and risk can you take your company to the next level

Boldness: We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us Who bravely dares must sometimes risk all

Results, specific and measurable, come from having a clear vision, defining what improvement and adaptation look like, and having a beginning and end in mind Results come from knowing what you are achieving today and having a clear, specific strategy for closing the gap between today s reality and your vision for tomorrow Perhaps you don t want to be a Lombardi type of leader, challenging, demanding, at times intimidating Maybe you don t believe you can be that kind of leader That s fine, as long as you can produce results with whatever style you prefer But keep in mind that ultimately, it s not whether your people like you or approve of you; it s whether they produce for you

The leader does not exist in the abstract, but rather in terms of what he does in a specific situation

People make a great deal of the rings that are awarded to the teams that win the Super Bowl And because Vince Lombardi s teams won the first two of these contests even before the words super bowl became one word and got capitalized he had the privilege of inventing a few traditions One of these was designing the rings worn by the winners of those championship games The ring that the Green Bay Packers wear for defeating the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl II has three large diamonds across the face The three diamonds signify the three consecutive world