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Michael Lombardi

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“You can get great wisdom from just one man if I would have stayed with Walsh my whole life, I probably would have been wiser and better, even though I went through a diversity of learning. I think I didn't get enough. Judge Galia has a line that says wisdom comes later. When wisdom comes later, I think that wisdom comes later from that.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm obsessed with the cartels. I'm obsessed with Don Winslow. I love the writer Don Winslow. I love reading about the cartels, how people think it's just a bunch of thugs, which they are, but how they set up their enterprise and how they shifted the dynamics of when we legalize marijuana and they realized it was a business, how they shifted it into now we are faced with this opioid crisis in America”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think hard work, without a doubt. My dad's 91 years old. He still cuts hair every single day. I think work ethic you get from your parents. My mother always told me to dream. She was the one who wanted me to dream. And Springsteen wrote that song Born to Run to get out of this town. And my mother's words were echoed in that. You got a dream. Your life's not going to be here. Your life can be bigger than this.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Drives me crazy. Like, I have no confidence. I mean, I went to a military academy, so excuse me and apologize. But I think an office should be tidy. I know Einstein's office was a disaster, and I have a picture of Bill Buckley's office. It looks like a disaster. Those are people at a different level. It drives me crazy if an office is neat. The other thing is because Walsh was a stickler for pictures being straight on the wall. If I would walk by an office and I don't see a picture that straight, I'd have to fix it.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When you have two wonderful kids, a beautiful wife, I think the family thing in this business is so hard to maintain because you work so long and you work hard. But I think my proudest moment was I think my ability to understand the situation.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've been spending my time working on football mostly and reading about things that I can apply to football. That's the beautiful thing about football that Walsh talked about was how you can take something that you learn in Chip Conley's book or Ryan Holliday's ego is the enemy and apply it to your field. Isn't that why we read? And so that's what I'll try to do”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know. I have no idea. I have nothing planned other than I'd like to write another book. I love football. I love leadership. And I just want to keep doing this.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wanted to have a second career. George Raveling is one of the greatest men I've ever met in my life. He was a coach at USC, Washington State, and Iowa. In fact, he is the curator of the Martin Luther King I Have a Dream speech. He was on the stage that day. He was working security and he just happened to ask Dr. King for the copy of the speech and Dr. King gave it to him. So he's owned it. He lives in Los Angeles. He's been a mentor to me. And he told me the greatest years of my life was from 60 to I'm 81 now. And that's really what I want to have. I want to have the greatest years of my life from now on.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Never stop learning. I think curiosity is the greatest thing. I think you have to keep asking why. And I think you have to reverse engineer it. Jack Nicholson said this once, and I think it's a powerful lie. He says, you know, I am a devout Democrat, but I read everything that Anne Coulter writes about because I want to learn, because I want to know, it's the elixir of life. And I think if you take that approach, if you really believe in something strongly, then read everything about it the other way. It'll either enhance you or grow you.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I have the ball at my opponent's five yard line, and I hold the ball and I get sacked at the 12th. That's not a problem. I'm going to kick the field goal anyway. I'm waiting for somebody to get open. But if I have the ball at my opponent's 35, let's say, and I take a sack there to the 42, now I can't kick a field goal. That's a three-point sack I gave up. So I can't take that sack. You follow me? I can't take that sack. That's a dumb play. That's me beating myself, and I can't do that.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, oftentimes when we look at a game, who's in the game determines what you do? So everything's a chess match. So if I go to three receivers and you play base defense, then I'm going to run the ball. If you play nickel against my three receivers, I'll run it then. So it's the chess match that's in there that we never get explained about the game. So that's a real problem for me. And then I think every third down isn't the same. So at halftime this weekend, you'll see third down stats or four for seven on third down. Well, the third down, if you're at your opponent's five-yard line, that third down is worth way more than you're at your own 25-yard line. Like that third down's four-point play. They never talk about that. They just lump them all together. When you practice, you practice third downs in the red zone. You practice third downs in the field. And then my other one is where the quarterback cannot get sacked. So if I'm Tom Brady.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think they know enough. I think what's happened to football is football is a highly advanced game of chess. And the people that are talking about the game don't understand the chess game. It would be like me going to analyze a Bobby Fisher Bariskowski chess map. I don't know enough about it to analyze it. So what can I say? Nice move. You know, I mean, it's just not. That's the other thing that drives me crazy, Ted, is it is advanced test game, and we have coaches acting complete lunatics. When if you ever watch two Grandmasters play chess, do they ever show any emotion? Of course not. They're thinking, right? Do you ever see Belichick? He's always thinking. It's the same thing.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“After week, it's bizarre. And the other thing is their miss field goals are turnovers. So, if you don't evaluate, if I miss this kick and I turn the ball over to them, I'm giving them a huge advantage. So what are my odds if I go for it on fourth down as opposed to if I kick it? Weigh those. I don't understand why TV hasn't done it. There should be like a rolling total, right, where, okay, the chance to making the field goal are 78%, the chance of forgetting her.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, they don't watch the game. They're not managing. Situational football is so important. If you have the ball, Ted, and I need the ball back, you have a third down play, third and four, and I have one time out left, and it's 2.05 to go in the game if I call timeout. Most fans at home would say, well, that's a smart thing. You're going to get the two-minute warning. It's the dumbest thing you could do in football. Why? Because what I've given you the right now is to run or pass. Okay, I've now allowed you to run or pass. If I let those five seconds go and you go to the two-minute warning and I still have a timeout, you have to run the ball. Because if you don't run the ball, they're going to kill you. They're going to rip you for not using the clock, right? If I know you're going to run the ball, I play a run defense. I get the ball back. But if I allow you the right to throw or run, I'm an idiot. And that mistake happens week after week.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you have to have enough boldness, enough curiosity, and enough confidence to do it the way you are. Because if you're watching the game and paying attention to it, you should do it that way.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When first down in football, everybody talks about establishing the run. It's the most ridiculous statement of all time because all it does is establish your ability to kick field goals because you're never going to score a touchdown running the ball. You have to make explosive plays. You have to get chunkyards of play. So when the NFL started years ago, Wednesday's practice was all about first down installing your first down. Today, downs really don't matter. It's really about establishing the lead that matters. So throwing the ball. So modify how you change your practice. Spend more time on third down in the red zone than you would on first intent. Or if you're spending time on first and ten, practice throwing the ball, not running the ball. So you have to change and adapt to the game. And you're teaching habits have to change and adapt as well. And I think that's part of the biggest issue is because coaches are programmed. We've always done it this way. We're going to keep doing it this way. If you don't do it that way and you're not successful, then people are saying, wow, what are you doing, right?”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The back half of your book is this sort of magical football wonky kind of what's next generation of strategy. So let me ask you this question. What are the things in football that coaches generally don't do that they should?”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm reading this book by Chip Connolly about wisdom at work, and he talks about experience how he's helped out, I think, the Airbnb guys, because he brought experience from his field into this high-tech youthful business, and it's helped him. Well, it's the same thing in all businesses. We all need some experience to know when to make that move. You don't get that when you're 25. I didn't have it. I know that. And I'm sure you're a much better investor today than you were 10 years ago because you've learned through your experiences. And I think that helps.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Pelichek in the first quarter is on a mission, and I mean a mission to figure out what we practice is that the game is how we practice how this game's going, and if it's not, how do I change it? How do I adjust to it? And so you have to be adaptable within your plan. And you've got to figure out when to change the plan. So going exactly how we said, let's just stay with the plant. Or, no, they're doing something completely different. Here's what we need.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Pete Carroll sees that we're putting goal line out there and it's clear on tape. You can hear him saying they put goal line. They're in goal line. They're in goal line. They send three receivers out on the field thinking they gain an advantage. But we really had the advantage. The next play, Malcolm Butler, an undrafted rookie free agent intercepts the ball at the one-yard line and we win the game. And it's all through his preparation. And yet it's also through his ability to see the situation across the field, not react to it, not listen to the noise of all the other coaches telling them what they think he should do, and focusing on the moment. It's remarkable.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We practice at every game during every week during the season, we never run it. We get into the playoffs, we practice it every game, we don't run it. There's 26 seconds left to go on the clock The Seattle Seahawks have the ball at their one yard line. It's third and one. Belichick looks on the other sideline. He sees some confusion in the Seattle bench. He doesn't want to call time out because he feels like the timeout will only benefit them, not him. Me, on the other hand, like an idiot, I'm up in the box screen. We got to call timeout. We got to call timeout, right? Because if they score a touchdown, we need some time to win this game. Belichick decided we're going to win or lose right here. And so he calls out for a defense that we had never run before the entire year. Okay? He says, just put goal line Nico out there. We do. And Annie's perspective is everybody's given Pete Carroll crap for running the ball, which is completely wrong. We had so many big guys that if Marshall Lynch would have tried to run the ball, he would have lost a yard. That's a fact. I don't care what Chris Collinsworth or Al Michael say on television. That's just a fact, okay? And so we put goal line nickel out there.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Annie was tremendous with her perspective. I loved it. So I get to the Patriots in 2014 after being fired again for one year working for the Browns. The owner changed direction. And I come in there my first day on the job, Belichick's talking about his goal line defense isn't very good. And they were really bad that year before. They couldn't stop anybody on short yardage. So he wanted the defensive coaches to come up with a goal line defense in the front, but had three corners in the back end. So instead of playing nickel where they could run the ball on easily, he had a goal line front which deters people from running the ball and throw it against three corners. We install it. We install it in April. We practice it all the mini camps, all the OTA days. That's May and June. We come back to training camp. We start practicing in training camp. We practice at all of training camp. We don't run it.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Who's the coach of the team and who's the quarterback of the team? And ever since that day, that's how I approached it. Nobody really wants to hear from the GM until the draft. So shut up and just do your job. And that's really the role of the GM should be.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, most general managers in the league don't have the complete autonomy to do whatever they want to do. It's really a coach-based league, and should be because the coach is dealing with the players every single day. If the players think the coach doesn't have control over their job, they can't be successful. They have to control it. But the gentlemanager has to work and support the head coach. And he has to do it in the background. One year when I left the Browns after Modell moved the team to Baltimore, Belichick went to New England. And then I went to Philly. And then after that, CBS just got football back here. So I was still under contract and I started helping out CBS Sports. And Jim Nance and I were doing a segment on the NFL today. And I was going to talk to him about Bill Poleon and Carolina and a bunch of personnel things, front office stuff. And Nance looks at me and says, you know, Michael, this is really interesting for you. He said, but all of America really only cares about who owns the team.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right. And what happens is because of that, most of the time people base their decisions on solutions based. What's good for us today? And if the owner doesn't understand that, you run the risk of having that high low up and down. Walsh told me in 1984 we are only competing against teams. That was when we had 28 teams in the league. He was right. Today they're still only competing against eight teams. Some teams have no chance, in part because they don't have a culture, in part because they're fighting the Civil War, in part because they don't have the right structure organizationally to be able to deal with it. And the owners really can keep spinning the wheel and finding new people, but until they recognize it's their job to explain exactly what they want, they're never going to win.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And they point to the board, that's what your job is. When the owner tells you what he wants, it's your job to figure out how to make it into something else. But what often happens, the owner doesn't tell you what he wants. He never said, well, this is what I really want. And it becomes very difficult.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, yeah, I mean, look, one third of the workforce in the NFL gets fired every single year. So that's a dangerous job. Really, it starts from the owner. The owner needs to be able to run the business like it's his business. Come in and tell us exactly what you want. What kind of football team do you want? Do you want to run the ball? Do you want to throw the ball? What do you visualize your company to be? Describe it for me. What type of people do you want? Will you take a chance on risky character? Define risky character. Okay. Anybody who hits a woman, we're not drafted. Okay, that's fine. All you got to do is tell me. I agree with you. Anybody who smokes marijuana, we're not drafted. Now, wait a minute, we got to have a conversation here because most of the population does. It's legal. So let's talk about that. All right. And then you set the rules. Once we agree on what the rules are, fine. I'm often reminded of that scene in Apollo 13 when those scientists are sitting in a long table and two guys walk in with cardboard boxes and throw all this crap on the table and say we got to make this into that.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How much of it's just break it down from the coach's perspective, how much of that is this kind of notion of job risk, that they want to be known because who knows how stable their current situation is and high turnover coaches?”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Stir the fire up. John Mara talking about Odell Beckham the other day just rekindled the fire that the media just wants them to do. John Mara doesn't need to talk. Dave Gettleman doesn't need to talk. Pat Shermer should be the face of the franchise. Let him do handle it all. But now we don't have that. So you have dissension. So when things don't go well, you've got this. Everybody points the finger. Well, you know, they didn't do a good job on that. They didn't do a good job on that. When one voice is coming through and everybody agrees on the philosophy and the direction, you can powerfully win anything. But what happens too often is people want credit. People want to be in front of the media. People want to be on TV. People want to be recognized. And that kills you. Ego is the enemy.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're smart. You know the whole ointment here. There's a lot of them. So Walsh used to say to me all the time, the Civil War's the ugliest war to fight, and there's a lot of Civil Wars in the NFL. Because why? Credit. Who gets credit? Who deserves credit? Does the owner deserve the credit? Does the head coach? Is the personnel guy not getting enough attention? Who's in Peter King's Monday morning quarterback column? You know, who's in there? And so when ego plays into it, it becomes very toxic. For me, I understand my role. My role as a general manager is to work with the coach. There only can be one spokesman for the organization. There can only be one message, command of the message. If I talk and say something about”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's like when you recruit a kid in school, you want somebody to come work for your firm. The one thing you don't want to hear is maybe. You want to hear either yes or no. No is just as good as yes because I'm moving on to the next guy. But maybe just ties me up too long. Maybe's don't exist. Same thing with this research. So I take all this information in, I sort it. I look at it. How does it apply? So instead of congratulating everybody after the draft, what do you do? You do the same thing Belichick does after every game. What do we do well? What do we do poorly on? What combines should we really pay more attention to? Northwestern has a workout every year for all the local kids from Chicago. Three kids got drafted at that workout. Okay, we need to put more resources in there. Something like that.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's been great. I tell everybody this I'm in the information business. And so I collect information and I sort information and I research information. People that say, well, you don't want analytics, no, I want analytics. I want to know. But I don't want someone who's on a doctoral study. I don't want something 10 years from now. I want you to be wrong. Tell me that the broad jump doesn't equate to anything and I'll listen to you and let's test it out. Let's try it. But don't tell me you need 10 more years to test this out over here in a lab. We're not astraZeneca. I don't have 10 years. I got to get to the answer. And you know what? Being wrong, Ted, is the greatest thing we can be.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He falls through the cracks, right? So there's always exceptions to every rule, and you're going to come across them. There's always a small school guy that dominates something. But my attitude is let them come to me. I don't need to chase him. If Jeremy Lynn's a really good player, he's going to come to me eventually. He's going to a camp. I'm going to hear his name from somewhere. I'm not going to miss him, as Al Davis used to tell me all the time, you know, kid, you don't work in the NFL. You live in the NFL? I live in the NFL. I'm going to hear his name. You live in your business. You know through Buzz, people are talking about this Lynn guy. Now let me go do some work. But if I spend my time searching for Lynn, I lose too much time.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Matches your profile, you're going to go after it. Now, that's not saying you're going to invest in it, but you're going to deep dive into that and figure out maybe I'm here. That's what we do in scouting. So once you get that list out, the key isn't to have, again, it's the Fred Palermo, too many things on the menu. We don't need a thousand guys on our draft board. We need 100 that fit what we do.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, everything about scouting, just like I'm sure about stock investment, is about elimination, not finding. Everything's about elimination. We built a criteria for what we want from each player. A mental criteria, a physical criteria. So for example, if we want an offensive lineman, we know we want offensive linemen that are six feet five or taller who has 34 and a half inch arms or longer, whose hand size is nine and a half or bigger, who run the forty and five three or less, and who start three years in college or more. And so we set up a criteria. And through that criteria, all the players get funneled into it, and then eventually less come out. And it's those less that you work on. The FBI doesn't open up the phone book and start looking for serial killers. They have a profile, right? It's the same thing in scouting. It's the same thing you do in your business. You have a profile of what you like in a company.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so, as you go through the process of a draft, that takes a lot of time to get down to LSU and just sort of hang out in a couple bars and get to know whoever you need to know. How do you narrow the filter?”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, so you have to be unique now. So, right now, because I can't go talk to a trainer because the laws in the country won't allow him to give out information on his medical. So that's back in the 80s, they would tell you anything you wanted to know, right? The coaches won't tell you anything you want to know because they don't want that player to hear a negative thought about them and hurts their recruiting. So you know right now no one's honest. So how do you get around it? For us, find different ways. How do you find someone's behavior when you're not watching is the best way to learn about somebody? We might go down to LSU and we know there's two bars that the players go to. And if you sit in that bar and watch what happens or talk to the bartender, he's going to tell you more information about the player than any of the coach over there. If you get immersed in the campus, talk to the sorority girls, you're going to find out more about the players than the traditional methods. And that's where if you don't like change, you're going to like.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Kobe Bryant is one of the hardest working, most competitive and intense players you're ever going to come across. And so when you're a great player has that work ethic, it builds the whole organization. Tom Brady will spend, he got to the office probably at 6.30 today. He probably won't leave till 6.30 tonight. Nothing's more important than what Tom Brady does to his body, to his mind. And so when you have great talent that brings that passion, you have a chance. When you don't, you get fooled. You get duped. You might have a high spike just like a stock might go up, but then you prepare for the downturn. And then what happens is you don't create more followers to do it that way because if he's successful doing it that way, everybody else figures, well, let's cut this corner this week and we all have that result. So you must combine greatness with work ethic. I've never seen a great player that didn't work.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Requires you to find players that can influence the game. For example, back in the early 60s, the middle linebacker called the defense. There was no real passing game, so it didn't matter if they threw the ball. He wasn't going to get exploited. Today, if you play with a middle linebacker that can't play the pass and it can only play the run, you're done. And so there's a line that I always use. If I can formation you off the field, meaning if I come out in a passing formation and you can't play, you're not a good player. So that's changed. As you're watching the game, you have to adapt your grading system and your philosophy to the ever-changing flow of the game.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So technology has certainly helped a lot. When I first started in the league, we were on sixty millimeter tape, which was very expensive, and there wasn't a lot of it around the building. If you had game film of your present game, you probably only had three games duped, so it was very expensive. Today, everything's on high definition video. So now I can sit in my office in New England and watch every Texas A&M football game. So scouting has changed dramatically. For me to get in an airplane and fly all the way to college station and then watch four games of their tape seems not worthwhile.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How you discipline yourself and how you educate yourself on an ongoing basis. That's create followers. It isn't getting to the office at 4 o'clock in the morning and just having your car parked out. It's getting results. It's showing people how you work. You don't have to do it through I got here at four. It's like people that give to charities that want to take out a billboard that they gave to a charity. Like you don't have to do that. You just do your thing and your recognition will come to you. And what I found was to be a great leader you have to really be strong in three of the four. And great ones are all four. If you're only good in two, you're really never going to succeed.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Go against the grain. I'll give you an example. The Utah Jazz were in a situation where they had a great point guard, and Jerry Sloane was the head coach. And the point guard was going too far to the right. And so Sloane went to the owner and said, it's either me or him. And the owner hesitated, and Sloane quit. And that hesitation is the reason why he quit. Because if that guy couldn't see it that clearly, it didn't matter. That's really command of the process. You've got to be committed to the values of the organization every single day. And no one's bigger than it, including yourself. That's what comes into command of self. This is really important how you handle yourself.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Speech, Mahalia Jackson in the background yellows. Tell him about the dream, Dr. King. And he then goes on an 11-minute expose on I Have a Dream and everybody got the message. It was powerful. It was visualized. You could hear it and see it. That's command of the message. Now all of us don't have King's great skills, but you don't have to be a rah-ra-rah guy. Belichick never raises his voice. Nick Saban might. It's your own style and your own authenticity, but you have to have a way to deliver your message so you can do it clearly. And that's command of the message. And then command of the process is about making sure that when you wake up every morning, you're committed to the culture and the process and not making exceptions to all the rules. One exception is cost you your job. The way you treat one person is going to have a ripple down effect if you're outside. The program is bigger than any individual. If somebody wants to”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Again, through Tom Peters, my life is centered around Tom Peters. Somehow he has come through my life without never meeting the man. You know how you have people that influence you in your life that you never meet? I mean, this man has done incredible things for me. And so I learned leadership is defined in four areas. Management of attention, management of meaning, management of self, management of trust. So in my book, I altered them a little bit because I thought it would be the command of the room. means when you walk in a room, you gain people's attention. You have a plan. It doesn't matter what your plan is, it just matters you have a plan. Now, command of the message, you've got to explain your plan. That's a challenge for some people. A lot of people have really good plans. They just can't explain them very well. And so therefore, they lose it. And I talk about this in my TED talk about how Martin Luther King in the middle of his, I have a dream speech, which was entitled I have a dream.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I think where Belichick gained such an advantage is, what are my weaknesses and how can I improve on them? And so if I know I'm not good in a certain area, we're not all great in everything, right? So I have to work on something else. I must improve on something else I do. And I think that's where it gains the edge.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's a nice parallel investing this concept of a generalist versus a specialist. And it's almost the same thing where Got to be really good at the one thing you're doing. But then, like what you said before, you also have to grow and change.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, why isn't an outburger so great? Because they only do a couple things. And so when you do a couple things really well, people notice.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I have this uncle, Fred Palermo. He's 91 years old. He's still alive, God bless him. So he used to say, when we go out to eat together and we were at a restaurant and they had a huge menu, he said, you know, they can't cook all this good. There's no way a chef can cook 50 things really good. And that always hit me. And so if you're at a diner or the burger because they'll cook that good. But at the French laundry, they only have five things on the menu. They'll cook every one of those really good, right? It's the same thing in business and leadership. If you have too many things on the menu, you can't operate them all good. You've got to narrow it down. So the Emerald Legasi theory was born out of, look, we could go online right now and get every one of Emerald Legassi's recipes. No problem. We'll print them out. We have them. You and I, now let's buy a restaurant. Let's start cooking them. We can't cook them good. We can't copy them. It will be out of business in three months, right? Because we don't understand it. We don't understand how the things go into the recipe. And then we also have too many things on the menu and we can't cook them all good.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Way more, way more. Alabama's two weeks ago they were a 17.5 point favorite if they played LSU. Think about that. That's a huge gap between the second best team. And a lot of it comes through the process.”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's the reason why they've been a sevens conference championship games. I think the difference between him and the next great coach is Sean Payton's great at what he does. I think Pete Carroll's great at what he does. But the difference between Bill and maybe Andy Reid and that group of guys to the next group is significant. If the cap's $175 million, Belichick's worth at least 10% of the cap”
2018-11-12 · Capital Allocators · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source