And, of course, most of the teams that set these lower-expectation goals often achieve just that: they make it to the playoffs, but lose in the first round, for example. Nothing less than ultimate excellence was acceptable for Elway in March of What VC wants to invest in and what founder finds acceptable a return on capital of 1x? These are excellence times ten. Aspirational goals also attract and motivate the best and brightest.
Every team needs a goal this clear. Then they might not ever get the exquisite feeling of being soaked in champagne. Truly powerful goals create powerful emotions. In my experience, timeframe is one of the most often overlooked items by startup leaders. Teams need to understand the stepping stones. Every startup is a series of stepping stones between funding rounds and journeys from funding round to funding round. A great leader needs to lay out the path of those stepping stones, so that they, too, are simple, measurable, evocative, aspirational, and timeboxed.
So what is that simple rallying cry that everyone understands? Even then when I watched them play, I felt that they were thinking mathematically on the playing field, and outwitting their opponent because of sheer intelligence and natural physical gifts.
So when I read Travers's book and saw the word "mathematical" on page 16, I remembered that years ago, Oscar Wells Warren Wells's brother who is now deceased told me that Warren Wells and his colleagues were doing mathematics on the football field.
He added that I was doing mathematics in the classroom, but that they were outwitting their opponents with mathematical thinking out on the football field. After all of these years, I have to agree. I don't care who you are or what you've done. You're here now, and you're going to win, win, win. I'm the general on the field. Al is the leader. That's how things are. Things aren't bad. He parlayed that into the head-coaching job at Ft.
Belvoir, Va. Davis then spent a year as a scout for the Baltimore Colts before returning to college football, as an assistant at The Citadel and then Southern California. In , the Los Angeles Chargers hired him to work under offensive mastermind Sid Gillman as an offensive ends coach. But he is going to be.
Hired as head coach and general manager of the three-year-old Oakland Raiders in , he took a team that had finished the previous year to the second-best record in the eight-team AFL at It was the biggest one-year turnaround in pro football history and the Associated Press named him Coach of the Year. After going in , the Raiders rebounded to the next season. He moved swiftly to force a merger with the established NFL by reaching contract agreements with many of the league's starting quarterbacks.
One of Davis' first big moves came after the following season, when he hired year-old Madden as his head coach. Davis became the organization's czar in after winning a court battle with co-owner Wayne Valley, who had challenged a contract Davis had signed with another co-owner that ceded Davis total authority. In the campaign, the Raiders won their seventh division title in eight years, capping their regular season with a victory over the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl XI.
In , Madden retired and Davis hired Tom Flores as his replacement. Davis had family issues on his mind later that year, when his wife, Carol, suffered a heart attack and sunk into a coma. Although she was given little chance of surviving, Davis stayed for weeks by her bedside.
Carol recovered. Davis failed in his efforts to get luxury suites added to Oakland-Alameda Coliseum in and, despite 12 straight seasons of sellouts, announced plans to move the team to Los Angeles.
This started a chain of litigation: Oakland sued Davis, who in turn sued the NFL for blocking the move.
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