I was just flipping through the book, "The Management Secrets of the New England Patriots", by James Lavin and came across a chapter titled "Ownership & Responsibility". Just wanted to share a few of the things I underlined from that section."We're highly competitive people here. And we don't have patience for high maintenance people or people who do dumb things. Belichick can't waste time cajoling and threatening people to do what they don't want to. So he built his New England team around competitive, self-disciplined players, and this gives the team a huge advantage."
Belichick knows that self-discipline and peer pressure are more effective than screaming coaches, so he signs disciplined players and leverages the power of peer pressure to get players to cajole and encourage one another.
The Patriots search for disciplined players who are their own worst critics and do the right thing even when no one's watching. He says he looks first and foremost for players that are low-maintenance.
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