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What It Takes to Win in Business and in Sports: Jerry Reese Talks About What it Takes to Find and Keep Talent in a Competitve Environment
So, the team is built around role-players?
Reese: Well, I think you have to have role-players. I think that’s a big part of your team. I think we do have some star players on our team as well, but I think role-players play a big part in your success. I don’t think you can just win with star players. I think you have to have role-players, selfless players and even our star players. I can categorize them as selfless type players, as well.
Do you have an organizational mantra or philosophy and if so, how do you communicate it to everyone?
Reese: Again, our philosophy, is about us. It’s about the team. It starts at the top with the organization, with owners and me, who believe in the head coach and they let us do our jobs. Once Again, it’s all about the team. I keep saying this, we don’t try to outshine each other, we try to shine together.
When you do that and you have a team concept, you care about each other, I think you have a better chance to be successful, when it’s like that. I think that’s what our philosophy, if that’s such a thing, philosophy.
Where do other others go wrong? There are organizations that are not able to do what you’re able to do.
Jerry Reese: I think we’ve been blessed and fortunate in some ways and there are different ways to skin a cat. Just because we’ve been successful doing it this way, doesn’t mean other teams aren’t successful in other ways. We don’t win a Super Bowl every year, so there have been other teams who’ve won it and have really played well and won championships, just like we have. That’s our philosophy – that works for us.
I don’t have a good answer for you, where other teams go wrong. I don’t know if other teams are going wrong. Again, you got to have some luck. You got to have some players and you got to have some coaches to put your players in the right positions. We have a good combination of those things and I don’t want to take too much credit for us being successful. We have everybody pulled in the same direction, that’s why we’re successful. It works for us and everybody is pulling in the same direction.
Source: BLACK ENTERPRISE MAGAZINE
