Art of Coaching
...People in the work force also strive to be the best at their jobs because with success come rewards. This may be a selfish reason to be successful but without it the world would not be as advanced as it is today. For Vince Lombardi there was no room for second place. He viewed winning as an all the time thing. He said "You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit." This is the cold had truth about professional sports. If your team is not winning then your team is losing money because the fans will not support a losing team. For organizations to be successful the players must strive to be the best at what they do. Many teams that have been favorites to win championships have lost because they are not willing to work at winning. A good example of this is the 1999 New York Rangers. This is a team that should have won the Stanley Cup. They will be lucky to make the playoffs. This is why in sports you have to compete at the highest level because it is the difference between winning and losing. How much work you put into it while you were competing also determines how successful you will be. This is why Vince Lombardi pushed his athletes to win. If Vince Lombardi had sat back and not pushed his players to win, it would have been disrespectful to all the players and to the game of football as well. The negative of Lombardi’s ideology is that most people do not succeed at what they are doing and it brings along a feeling of failure lowered self-esteem and problems with interpersonal relationships. This is a tremendous negative to Lombardi’s beliefs. However it is still positive to push people to succeed. For those that do succeed it is worth it. Another negative to this type of philos...