The score takes care of itself
by Bill Walsh
with Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh
The score takes care of itself : my philosophy of leadership
read by Dick Hill
unabridged
business
bookCD 658.4092 walsh
keyword summary (audio book, unabriudged): inspiring, motivational, leadership, lesson to be learned: how to delegate, Achilles’ heel, personal, touching, coach, teacher
([ Thank you, Bill Walsh; you certainly did it your way ])
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He also revealed that every coach, executive “pushes themselves to the brink and beyond, often have no support system and become isolated from family, friends, and normal interactions.” His story teaches me to be a better life and leadership coach and to be a part of that “support system” leaders can turn to.
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“The Score Takes Care of Itself”
My Philosophy of Leadership
Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, and Craig Walsh
Book Note by Dave Kraft
Football coaches, just like executives who push themselves to the brink and beyond, often have no support system and become isolated from family, friends, and normal interactions. an ever-growing loathing of failure, which, uncontrolled, can eventually take over to a point of making you almost dysfunctional.
You must derive satisfaction and gratification from winning without letting it define your self-worth. I must admit that I’m not sure any of this would have benefitted me by the time I reached the end of my rope. The time to do it is before your tank is empty.
1. Do not isolate yourself.
2. Delegate abundantly. ([ Bill Walsh, coach, general manager, president, teacher ])
3. Avoid the destructive temptation to define yourself as a person by the won-lost record, the “score,” however you define it.
Like many who wear blinders and focus on victory to the exclusion of everything else, I barreled down the highway until the engine burned up. While you can influence the result to a greater or lesser degree, you do not control the result.
The cruelty of the sport,
One of the lessons I learned was how people change with success or failure. People’s behavior and attitudes can be transformed in the most positive or most disturbing ways. Starting in 1979 when he was appointed president, general manager, and head coach of a lowly franchise in San Francisco, a distant outpost in the eyes of many throughout the league.
I’ve come to understand that, in some ways, my father’s life was almost Shakespearean, because what got him to the top professionally was his downfall personally; in spite of his incomparable achievements, he had trouble ever feeling fulfilled on a continuing basis.
When you achieve what he achieved, the inability or unwillingness to grant yourself happiness and satisfaction is perhaps tragic. In this and many other ways big and small, nobody had ever done it like Bill Walsh did it. His unorthodoxy put off owners who subsequently held him at arm’s length.
Regardless of what he did, it seemed the powers that be would not accord him equal status, would not recognize the legitimacy of his approach and his leadership skills. Thus, he increasingly became driven by a simple but almost obsessive goal: to prove them all wrong. And he did.
As you’ve read in his own words, this desire to “do it all myself ” eventually became an Achilles’ heel for him. Improvement was his obsession—always looking for ways to improve his coaching, his team, his organization.
Bill Walsh may not have sold his soul to the company store, but he leased it to the game he loved for many years.
10 LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP FROM BILL WALSH’S THE SCORE TAKES CARE OF ITSELF
By OLIVIER POIRIER-LEROY, NASM-CPT
https://www.yourworkoutbook.com/lessons-in-leadership-bill-walsh-score-takes-care-of-itself/
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