Post by aceback76 on Nov 19, 2019 11:31:15 GMT -6
STANDARD OF PERFORMANCE (Bill Walsh). This is called "The Patriot Way" in New England:
“Culture Beats Everything”
Bill Walsh's “Standard of Performance” was the formula for constructing and maintaining the culture and organizational DNA behind the perfect football franchise. The word “perfect” and the very idea of “building the perfect organization” are either cliches or fantasies to most coaches. Not to Walsh. Perfection drove him endlessly and, sometimes to those around him, maddenlingly.
His obsession with perfection meant he constantly pushed his people, regardless of experience or position in the organization, to learn more. He was naturally ccurious, always searching for ways to fix his team or just better accomplish the simplest task, and, and he demanded the same thing of his staff. He never wanted us to follow familiar paths to knowledge. He was trying to build a lasting, self-perpetuating culture to counter the groupthink that was then pervasive in the NFL and still is today.
Walsh's “17 Principles” of the Standard of Excellence (Staff Guidelines):
1. Exhibit a ferocious and intelligently applied work ethic directed at continual improvement.
2. Demonstrate respect for each person in the organization.
3. Be deeply committed to learning and teaching.
4. Be fair.
5. Demonstrate character.
6. Honor the direct connection between details and improvement; relentlessly seek the latter.
7. Show self-control, especially under pressure.
8. Demonstrate and prize loyalty.
9. Use positive language and have a positive attitude.
10. Take pride in my effort as a entity separate from the result of that effort.
11. Be willing to go the extra distance for the organization.
12. Deal appropriately with victory and defeat, adulation and humiliation.
13. Promote internal communication that is both open and substantive.
14. Seek poise in myself and those I lead.
15. Put the team's welfare and priorities ahead of my own.
16. Maintain an ongoing level of concentration and focus that is abnormally high.
17. Make sacrifice and commitment the organization's trademark.
NOTE: He highly recommended the book “In Search of Excellence” by Tom Peters.
“Culture Beats Everything”
Bill Walsh's “Standard of Performance” was the formula for constructing and maintaining the culture and organizational DNA behind the perfect football franchise. The word “perfect” and the very idea of “building the perfect organization” are either cliches or fantasies to most coaches. Not to Walsh. Perfection drove him endlessly and, sometimes to those around him, maddenlingly.
His obsession with perfection meant he constantly pushed his people, regardless of experience or position in the organization, to learn more. He was naturally ccurious, always searching for ways to fix his team or just better accomplish the simplest task, and, and he demanded the same thing of his staff. He never wanted us to follow familiar paths to knowledge. He was trying to build a lasting, self-perpetuating culture to counter the groupthink that was then pervasive in the NFL and still is today.
Walsh's “17 Principles” of the Standard of Excellence (Staff Guidelines):
1. Exhibit a ferocious and intelligently applied work ethic directed at continual improvement.
2. Demonstrate respect for each person in the organization.
3. Be deeply committed to learning and teaching.
4. Be fair.
5. Demonstrate character.
6. Honor the direct connection between details and improvement; relentlessly seek the latter.
7. Show self-control, especially under pressure.
8. Demonstrate and prize loyalty.
9. Use positive language and have a positive attitude.
10. Take pride in my effort as a entity separate from the result of that effort.
11. Be willing to go the extra distance for the organization.
12. Deal appropriately with victory and defeat, adulation and humiliation.
13. Promote internal communication that is both open and substantive.
14. Seek poise in myself and those I lead.
15. Put the team's welfare and priorities ahead of my own.
16. Maintain an ongoing level of concentration and focus that is abnormally high.
17. Make sacrifice and commitment the organization's trademark.
NOTE: He highly recommended the book “In Search of Excellence” by Tom Peters.