The football team mentality

I’ve always taken a sports team philosophy to the workplace. Playing football in high school which I view as the ultimate team sport, changed my view on life. It taught me responsibility and gave me a work ethic. It made me realize that most things that are good in life require a ton of hard work. And it taught me how to work in a team for the greater good of the collective whole.

I bring that same football team mentality to the work place everyday. I have always emphasized a team over individual mentality and structure our teams accordingly. We work together, we pick each other up when we need and we hold each other accountable.

I’m a believer is that culture is what you do, not what you say you do. So everything I write about here, I try to live it everyday at work. Obviously, I’m not perfect and I’ve screwed this up plenty of times but I like to think I get it right much more often than not.

It’s been great to see this culture at play as I’ve taken a step back to take care of my newborn. My team has been nothing short of amazing this last week. They keep me the bus moving despite being short-handed and they do not complain about it. I feel fortunate to have an amazing team.