I'm trying to coach the team and that's what I want to do.
When I first became a head coach in Toronto, I was more of a dictator, wanted to do everything, all the development, defense, offense, whatever it was.
Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first-line attention. In this regard we could learn much from the Japanese. We must reinvest in the human side of management.
Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.
Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.
There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
You win them to what you win them with.
Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.
There are people who will be wanting to apply "Win" to their own, personal life. If you remember only one thing, and I'm going to do it right here, right now because I just happened to come to it, that phrase - if you remember only one thing - there are 125 specific language recommendations in "Win" that can make a difference in your day-to-day lives.
There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.
Some people are motivated by visualizing themselves reaching their dream. Some people are motivated by the nightmare of not reaching it. Do both.
Pep is a modern coach, he's intelligent, brave, likes football and always has the players on his side. He knows a lot about football, but Mourinho's success in all countries where he has been confirms him as the best.
Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success
As far as being a coach, it's always fascinated me. It's a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you're dealing with people.
I think the biggest thing I learned was the different types of leadership styles and the ways of pushing peoples' butts, because they're all different.
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.
Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.
My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.
Rewards can deliver a short-term boost—just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you cranking for a few more hours. But the effect wears off—and, worse, can reduce a person’s longer-term motivation to continue the project.
There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.
Now I do feel like I have something to say. The book [How to Be a Bawse] is a guide on how to not just survive life but to conquer it. And it's based on my life experiences, all the people I've met, all the things I've learned from those people, being in the weird situations that I get in.
Motivation is undoubtedly the single greatest influence on how well people perform. Most productivity studies have found that motivation has a stronger influence on productivity than any other factor.
I am aware of the crowd, the need to get them motivated and involved.
