Bill Walsh's way of building a winning team by fixing the details rather than chasing a timetable for wins.
Ryan Holiday's framework, from Ego Is the Enemy, pp. 85 to 133.
What should be done
Define the exact task in every role, from how quarterbacks hold the ball to how the locker room is kept.
When
Schedule practice to the minute and monitor every drill.
How
Grade execution down to the inch and enforce effort, sportsmanship and neatness throughout the organisation.
From chapter: PART II: SUCCESS, pp. 85–133
Part II covers success, where ego shortens how long it lasts. Howard Hughes is the cautionary tale of inherited wealth and talent wasted on vanity. The remedies are to stay a student as Genghis Khan did, to avoid telling yourself a story about how you got here as Bill Walsh refused to, to decide what matters to you so you can say no as Sherman did and Grant did not, to watch for entitlement, control and paranoia, to organise yourself the way Eisenhower did and John DeLorean did not, to avoid the Disease of Me as George Marshall did, to gain perspective from the immensity of the world, and to stay sober like Angela Merkel. The part ends by saying that success will eventually regress and the sensible move is to prepare for setbacks.
