Longtime college football coach Skip Hall shares what it takes to make a truly innovative team. The key? Always looking one play ahead.
Video Transcript
You know, in the field of coaching—which I was a college football coach for 30 years—as a coach, you’ve got to be thinking a play ahead. You’ve got to be thinking about [how] you’re here in the moment, yes, but you’re also a play ahead. And I think that’s important as far as being an innovator is that you’ve got to be thinking a play ahead. You know, what are we going to do based on what’s going on out there, how can we change, how can we get better, how can we make adjustments, you know, as the game is going on, and at halftime, and at post-game as we critique everything. How can we get better?
We can get better by being an innovator. I think to say that life begins at the end of your comfort zone and that’s what innovation is all about. It’s kind of like when the lightbulb goes on and you realize how important innovation is and that we can’t stay the same. We’re either going to get better or we’re going to get worse. As we’re building a team, we want to make sure that we are recruiting people that fit our culture, and then we want to get them in the right positions so that they can have success. You don’t want to take a quarterback and make him a tackle or vice versa, you want to build that culture and continue to build the innovation that goes with it. So I think the combination of culture, innovation, people—you know, they make the difference.
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