Sublime

The Alpha Male Executive

the CEO and “chief servant

May you hold yourselves accountable by asking, “Who gets fired if the most marginalized aren’t experiencing the intended benefits

Everyone must have an attitude of helping one another. Are you teaching that to those you lead? Do you teach that being on your team includes sharing their knowledge? That an employee strengthens himself or herself when he or she strengthens another member of the organization?

In your own professional activities, remember that a reputation for fair play—treating people right—can be a big part of a potential employee’s decision to join you or a current and valued employee’s desire to remain.

Bill Walsh held the need to treat individuals within his organization fairly almost sacrosanct (in return, those individuals were expected to consistently work at their most productive level).

Bill set high standards for his coachees; he believed they could be great, greater than what they believed. This created an aspiration for each of us, and disappointment when we thought that we were not living up to that aspiration. Bill set the bar higher for us than we set it for ourselves, and when you approach people with that mind-set, they re

Values, as I saw it, were a company’s psychic core. Without values in common, we couldn’t develop companywide trust.

“Communication,” we told our managers, “is vital to outstanding service. And in order to communicate, you’ll first have to win trust.