Here is the answer to the last shout:
The players play only as well as their coach allows.
This re-affirms a fact of life. In many situations we can only do as well as the circumstances permit. On some days even a middling player will hit the zone and play to the level of great. Often it will be on the days that they received encouragement from someone.
In business, it is often the culture encouraged by the boss that decided whether a company, be it large or small, will accomplish what it wants. A brutal culture, where everyone is always afraid of losing their jobs (remember AT&T back in early ninties) will never permit a company to be great. A brutal culture will always keep the company from middling to below average.
But where bosses have the patience to figure out how to leverage the foibles of their players, there my friends, we have the makings of a great company, like Google and word has it, Amazon and Starbucks is on its way.
This holds true for small business too. But the problem with small business examples if you mention them by name then it hurts people and besides nobody knows the firms involved anyway. And you don’t have to take my word for it. Organization behaviour literature is replete with studies that provide evidence about the importance of the boss and the culture in achieving organizational goal.
This next shout is about increasing your personal productivity or how to get more done in a day. The consultant who came up with this one tip earned, I believe several thousand dollars, way back in early twentieth century. Everybody may already know this tip but here it is all the same.
Nalp eht neneign fereob
