How The Broncos are like Entrepreneurs
Posted 08-11-2008 at 05:46 PM by Getting to High Street
How the Broncos are like Entrepreneurs
As many of you know I help entrepreneurs evolve from Ego-preneur to Entre-preneur to Ultra-preneur. This evolution involves the entrepreneur as the business owner to evolve their mindset from the technician to the manager to the leader. I can describe the technician as someone who does the work, the manager refines systems, and the leader is the visionary and creates things that are new. Many of you ask me for real life examples to explain the difference between the technician, manager, and leader.
So here's a real life example. Let's look at the Broncos and the head coach Mike Shanahan. On his team he has football players that play various positions. There are linemen, linebackers, running backs, etc. These are technicians doing the work.
Shanahan also has other coaches on the team. He has line coaches, quarterback coaches, defensive coaches, and many more. These are the managers. They make sure each system is continually refined to help make each player more efficient and effective.
Then there is the head coach. Shanahan analyzes the opposing team before the game and puts together a series of initial plays to see how the opposing team will react to them. From how they react, he then puts together another series of plays to counter act what he observed. He continues to change his strategy so as to beat the other team as the game goes on. He is the leader continuing to create new strategies to beat the competition. He is looking at the game from the outside in. To Shanahan it's a continuously changing puzzle that has to be monitored just as a general would do on the battlefield.
Shanahan then relates this information to the managers and they in turn relay it to the individual players. Although a line coach may see something that needs to be changed because of what they are observing in the game they are not watching the entire big picture of the game. Nor is each individual player; they are watching the game from the inside out. Only Shanahan is watching the entire picture.
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As many of you know I help entrepreneurs evolve from Ego-preneur to Entre-preneur to Ultra-preneur. This evolution involves the entrepreneur as the business owner to evolve their mindset from the technician to the manager to the leader. I can describe the technician as someone who does the work, the manager refines systems, and the leader is the visionary and creates things that are new. Many of you ask me for real life examples to explain the difference between the technician, manager, and leader.
So here's a real life example. Let's look at the Broncos and the head coach Mike Shanahan. On his team he has football players that play various positions. There are linemen, linebackers, running backs, etc. These are technicians doing the work.
Shanahan also has other coaches on the team. He has line coaches, quarterback coaches, defensive coaches, and many more. These are the managers. They make sure each system is continually refined to help make each player more efficient and effective.
Then there is the head coach. Shanahan analyzes the opposing team before the game and puts together a series of initial plays to see how the opposing team will react to them. From how they react, he then puts together another series of plays to counter act what he observed. He continues to change his strategy so as to beat the other team as the game goes on. He is the leader continuing to create new strategies to beat the competition. He is looking at the game from the outside in. To Shanahan it's a continuously changing puzzle that has to be monitored just as a general would do on the battlefield.
Shanahan then relates this information to the managers and they in turn relay it to the individual players. Although a line coach may see something that needs to be changed because of what they are observing in the game they are not watching the entire big picture of the game. Nor is each individual player; they are watching the game from the inside out. Only Shanahan is watching the entire picture.
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So the managers have to "buy in" to the vision so to believe what may not seem like the best play now, is the best play for the successful outcome.
If Shanahan is usually correct, trust. If not, change is required? But is change required in vision, communicating vision or execution? Nice post! |
Posted 08-11-2008 at 09:10 PM by David Sandusky
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It could be all of them. For example... a change in the vision occured in football quite extensively when the "west coast offense" became popular. It was a new vision of how things could be done. I'm sure it took quite a while to communicate that vision to "running teams" or other teams that had a very different vision than the west coast offense. The execution of the west coast offense changed the way the whole team worked together.
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Posted 08-12-2008 at 05:35 PM by Getting to High Street
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Okay Bronco fan as am I. How much longer do you give Shanahan to get all sides of the ball back to respect and playoff threat?
See you Thursday at eBOB |
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Posted 08-12-2008 at 09:13 PM by David Sandusky
Updated 08-12-2008 at 09:15 PM by David Sandusky |
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How The Broncos are like EntrepreneursI don't know how long it will take. I am not a head coach of a professional football team, I'm a professional business coach specializing in working with entrepreneurs. But, the year The Broncos won the Superbowl one thing did stand out and that was The Broncos had no real injuries to their starting lineup. I think last year The Broncos had something like 18 injuries to their starting lineup. Injuries that prevented them from playing for a series of games or the entire season.
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Posted 08-13-2008 at 11:51 AM by Getting to High Street
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self destructionBroncos looked better than expected. Raiders continue downward slide - top downward.
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