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One thing that I realize is that few people love coming to work, but my hope is that their time there can at least be tolerable and that at some point in the start of the shift and by the end of the shift they have smiled and maybe laughed at least once. if they can start their early day not being completely grumpy and leave not being pissed... i consider that a success and a reason to not dread coming to work when they might not feel like it. That is my starting point and the goal is to make them feel like they are accomplishing something real and tangible and are of value to me and the organization. You make them feel good about what they do, even if it's just loading trucks or taping up boxes (I work in a distribution center) and they will feel a bit of pride in what they do and as a result they will make sure it's done right and can meet all the deadlines and production goals.

I wish they could do it without earning that "honor" because i think it definitely helped.

Thanks for putting your work out there. I'll definitely be reading those, especially that newest one and I'll likely be passing that recommendation on to people i know in education. i applaud your efforts to help transform education administration. I've often considered myself a victim of public education because I grew up with ADD in a time that nothing was known about it and too many of the teachers I had chose to embarrass me publicly for "daydreaming" rather than help me work through and around my challenges. I think education has come a long way since then, but there are still many ways in which progress can and needs to be made. The world is rapidly changing and kids today have so much more to deal with than we ever did growing up thanks to social media and then of course the last year has brought about many new challenges that have a massive impact on the emotional well-being of our kids. Teachers have to adapt and administrators have to be able to help guide and equip their teachers to be more helpful in the classrooms. From the looks of it, your book will go a long way in helping accomplish that.

i love the dog analogies and think they are dead on (sheep dog is a great example of a great leader). also dead on was your comments about how to hold people accountable also, can you end me a link to your book. i've got another 20 something books left on my reading list for this year, but i definitely would work that puppy in.

item #2891 that had me sick of rivera. he was bitter about being pushed out of teams and the game by younger players when he felt he had more to offer so he was committed to making sure that his players would be able to leave on their own terms rather than getting pushed out like he was. that's nice and all, but it doesn't create a winning situation. both rivera and fox had "their guys" and let them stick around as long as they wanted in the roles they wanted to be in because they had "earned" it.

i got my MBA with a focus on leadership and put that mindset you just talked about into practice as much as possible in every leadership role i'm in. my departments have always been the most productive and my crews always like working for me. i get the best out of them because i allow them to breathe and go in every day knowing that i trust their ability to get the job done right. when there's an issue, i deal with it, but they know that when i deal with it, they aren't going to come out feeling like garbage. my teams don't walk around on eggshells or feel paranoid about making a mistake, which everyone will do. i help them find a solution to their problems and will only dictate as a last resort that i don't go to very often at all.

yes, that is true. and he also is the type that will move on quickly when you don't show your worth. kind of like, "i will give you everything you need to succeed, but i won't do your job for you. get it done with the tools i give you or we'll find someone who can." that's why we moved on from TB so quickly and why i think that contract TB got was more hurney's doing than rhule's. I think Darnold will have a little more rope than TB got, but not much more and the only reason he will be given that rope was because TB was already who he was, but Darnold is still able to be developed because of his age. but you've got to show signs that you are doing the right things or at the very least moving in that direction. there has to be results or quantifiable measures of progress. if neither of those are present, we'll be on the lookout for another QB next year.

lol i tried to convince myself early on that it wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be...kind of like what i did with clausen. i was like everyone else, though, when we found out that we were going to be going with davidson....just a massive headscratcher, but i think by that point no one was surprised. i know i wasn't. i mean davidson came with the charlie weiss stamp of approval. just how bad could he be? oof yeah, among the most frustrating things i saw with fox/davidson was quitting what was working and also trying to match up with a teams strength instead of trying to focus on and exploit a team's weakness. if a team was weak against the run but super stout against the pass, the gameplan would be to focus on passing the ball.

a belief i have always had...a good leader makes people want to follow because of the way they are treated and valued. people will give you their best if they believe you believe and are invested in them. good leaders will also allow leaders under them to bring their best assets to the table and give them the freedom to use what they bring to the table without mandating how it's used. i see all of that in rhule.

i didn't realize how good we had it until we turned the offense over to an OL coach.

i'm just amazed that fox allowed that t happen, but then fox was a different coach after the superbowl. leading up to it, he was everything you wanted to see in a coach. after achieving success so early i think everything was about repeating the formula that got him to that game with as much of the same personnel or type of personnel as possible. where he used to adapt, he turned into "well it worked before, it should keep on working." that's why henning didn't fit anymore with him and why trgovac did. henning was constantly creative...which means unpredictable. fox just wanted to focus on 'run the ball, stop the run'.

Should be used to it.

This was one awesome moment. Had me filled with such pride. I just wish we had a better situation around Cam. Damn Rivera.

not too crazy about this idea. i'd like to keep moton at RT because he's working there. i like not having a question mark at that part of the OL. you bump him over to LT and you put in an older beat up RT in and you are just causing more issues. any bodies we bring in on the OL should be taking care of a specific need. if LT is weak still, bring in someone who has experience playing there. but unless we have some stud that gets released from here on, i'd rather just roll with who we've got and try to get them to work....minus little. ready for that hurney pick to be in the past.

That's a whole lot of pointy elbows.

I kind of fixed it.

he's a keeper

Agreed, there's not a chunk of that schedule that makes me nervous.

Yeah, after an absolutely humiliating loss in ATL the board melted down so bad we had to start over. I think we were down for a day or two. That's why you don't see anyone with a join date earlier than 2008.

will probably be an AFC team with a young QB. probably ravens.

From what I could gather, it has more to do with their faith in ATL and CHI being better than us and bumping them up ahead which dropped us. Screw 'em.

Agreed. He'll be a flash in the pan.

That's fine. We'll prove who we are....one way or the other.

that season was a massive roller coaster. we, esp. jake, started off so good before tommy john attacked him. after that, the only shining spot was vinnie. i remember this moment so clearly... i remember Vinnie had talks with Dwill that helped him take it up a notch. i also remember that last huddle of Vinnie's in our last game of the season playing in tampa (where he played his first game as a pro). He was sent in on the last play and the play call in his helmet to take a knee came from his son. All that stuff with Vinnie almost made me forget that stuff with david carr. i remember him getting booed off the field at home and then missing games being on the injured list with a fragile psyche. dude should not have taken a snap that year.