This weekend, I watched the Falcons / Rams playoff game. The playing was pretty intense and it's apparent with some of the players pushing and shoving after the play is over. One of the announcers made the comment that the players are playing harder as this is do-or-die time. They know that it really counts now. So I said to my brother-in-law Matt that if any of these teams played like that all year long, that their team would dominate all season long!
Then I started thinking about that approach in business. How many of us as business owners or business team members approach our jobs not just during crunch times - but all the time - as though "it's do-or-die time"? It's that type of approach that can set a company so far apart from their competition. As an organization, you may be equally strong at what you do as compared to your competition. However, if you are constantly "playing" (working) as though it's always do-or-die time and every decision counts and every deal counts, even your average company becomes exceptional. The term "any given Sunday" is used to say that any football team could win on any given day. By always working as though it's do-or-die time, your business can - or rather - will go from being another "any given Sunday" type of organization to an "every Sunday" organization.
In the words of Tim McGraw on his latest cd Live Like You Were Dying, he asks on track 1 - How Bad Do You Want It?
It's a rather convicting question.
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