They say winning is a way of thinking. A behavior. The same with losing.
Once a culture of winning or losing sets in any organization or person it's hard to break the habit.
Sports is the best place to see this play out - no apology for the pun. Corporations do so as well (e.g. constant changing of CEO's, persistently bad products and services, low earnings, negative cash flow, low stock prices etc. - whatever indicators you may choose to point to a poorly run organization. There are always markers) but let's stick to sports.
I was listening to Cowherd in the morning and he was talking about "low self-esteem" sports teams that litter the sports landscape like the New York Mets or Los Angeles Clippers - to name a few. He also singled out the Cleveland Browns. The Detroit Lions you're off the hook...for now.
Check this statistic out. They're on the hook for $49 million in salaries for six former coaches. How the heck can you run anything with that kind of monumental stupidity? One would think someone in a meeting would interject and say "maybe we should lay off laying off coaches and give them a chance? After all, it reflects poorly on us at some point if we can't hire the right people, right?"
Bingo.
Yet, there they were firing another coach after one season.
Cleveland's problem isn't the coach. It's management and ownership.
Great, stable and successful companies and franchises don't panic. Middling, unstable, failing ones do.
Not only that. Between the Browns and the NBA's Cavaliers, Cleveland has had 15 coaches in the last six years.
Ridiculous. The results shouldn't surprise anyone.
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Which made me think about public policy.
We see knee-jerk reactions to stuff all the time.
Case in point gun-control.
The second a tragedy occurs out come the hyperbole from the 'do something, do anything' crowd despite the evidence pointing to declining homicide rates. Despite the statistical fact murder rampages are preciously rare.
The fact is, there is absolutely no justification or evidence supporting the need for tighter gun-control. It's already in place.
Wo, T.C.! Are you seriously comparing modern politics to the Cleveland Browns.
I guess I am.
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