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Bill Walsh’s Standard of Performance

Here’s a copy of 3 Time Super Bowl Championship Coach Bill Walsh’s Standard of Performance :                                  

                                          Bill Walsh’s Standard of Performance

  • Exhibit a ferocious and intelligently applied work ethic directed at continual improvement.
  • Demonstrate respect for each person in the organization.
  • Be deeply committed to learning and teaching.
  • Be fair.
  • Demonstrate character.
  • Honor the direct connection between details and improvement, and relentlessly seek the latter.
  • Show self-control, especially under pressure.
  • Demonstrate and prize loyalty.
  • Use positive language and have a positive attitude.
  • Take pride in my effort as an entity separate from the result of that effort.
  • Be willing to go the extra distance for the organization.
  • Deal appropriately with victory and defeat, adulation and humiliation.
  • Promote internal communication that is both open and substantive (especially under stress).
  • Seek poise in myself and those I lead.
  • Put the team’s welfare and priorities ahead of my own.
  • Maintain an ongoing level of concentration and focus that is abnormally high.
  • Make sacrifice and commitment the organization’s trademark.
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