When we are organised on the pitch, it is easier to play in defense.
You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.
Every team I've played on has players-only meetings, players staff meetings, so this is part of the process.
In training camp, you know what each person is doing.
Joe Prunty will take over, and he will run the team. But nobody gets out of their lane. Joe will still be offense, and Sweeney will still be defense.
Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.
One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.
It is a great honor to be inducted into the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame. When you honor me with this distinction, you really honor the players who put me there. All of the honors I receive became a reality only through the contributions of my players. In addition to myself, you also honor my family and the Dodger organization. I accept this recognition with pride and gratitude.
When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.
The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.
It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.
Against Chelsea, you will have periods in the game when you are right up against it, when they keep the ball. They are pretty solid the way they set their team up.
Get your team in order, assembly is key
With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome.
My template for everything is organisation. With the ball you have to know the movement patterns, the rotation, the fluidity and positioning of the team. When we have the football everybody's a player.
If I could play a game and not have to tackle, I know that I did everything right. I organized everyone the right way, read every play the right way.
What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the strength and weakness of the opponent, and he will give the details for what he wants. And for me, that was impressive.
The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.
After more than 30 years in the dugout I have come to realise there is a need at many clubs for someone who can act as a link between managers and owners.
A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that.
The Giants have a great organization, great fan base.
I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.
