Carpenters

There was a story on CBS the other day about a CEO of a credit card processing company. He raised every employee’s pay to a minimum of $70,000 a year. That doubled some of their salaries. He himself took a $1 million dollar a year pay cut. The critics said this was business suicide, it would never work. Not only did his production go up, but attendance and the quality of work improved. His turnover rate decreased drastically as well. The attitudes and work camaraderie also drastically improved. His communication between himself and employees was made easier as well. His company is now thriving. It’s common sense as that you are gonna get more from people if they feel appreciated and respected. If they like and respect you as a supervisor, you will get the most from them. If they don’t like and respect you as a supervisor, your gonna get the minimum. It’s no different with players and coaches. My dad always taught us that you were extremely lucky if you had 5 TRUE friends in your lifetime. He also taught us that you’re only as good as the people you surround yourself with. I have both of those to be exactly true. When I worked for Alcoa, we were Union. In the beginning unions had good intentions for the working man. But what I saw was that very few good workers ever needed union representation over disciplinary issues. They were usually fighting the company to save some POS worker that kept drama stirred up, didn’t do their job, and worked harder at trying to make trouble for the company than they did their job. That always aggravated the heck out of me. Take care of the good, the ones that take care of you, and tell the ones that don’t to kick rocks. I saw another deal about Nick Saban the other day. This ex player was talking about how Nick was just ripping his butt good. He was cussing him and calling him different names, etc. After practice he went to Coach Saban and said coach, why do you talk to me that way? I do everything you ask of me as soon as you ask it and I do it to the best of my ability. I’m not asking for special treatment but I’m asking for fair treatment. Saban replied that it’s not about you. More times than not, I’m coaching other players through you. I know you are going to give me everything and I know you can take that harshness and bounce back from it. Your teammates respect and look up to you and if they see that I’ll rip your head off then they surely know I won’t hesitate to rip theirs off as well. I difference is that I know you can take where most of them can’t, so I’m actually coaching them through you. That player had a whole new outlook on it after that. Being a leader isn’t easy, that’s why there are way more sheep.

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