Did you ever wonder what your life would be like if you got to act the way football coaches act? If you were allowed to respond to perceived slights the way that they are allowed to? If you’d convinced yourself every part of your day was life and death, the way they do?
You’re sitting in a morning meeting, and Jane from Accounting asks you about something she’s confused about in the quarterly report, and your response, rather than to clear up the discrepancy, is to instead throw your visor on the ground and scream while one of your subordinates stands behind you, holding you by the belt so you don’t leap across the table at her?
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We talk about football coaching like it’s a job, and it obviously is, but there are no other jobs like it — where you get to treat people like college football coaches tend to treat people. Where you believe yourself so powerful that you are allowed, and even encouraged, to act like a child if there is even the slightest hint that you might not get your way.
Just more than six weeks ago, after LSU had defeated Florida 20-10, WBRZ-TV sports director Michael Cauble
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