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The Score Takes Care of Itself

Disciplines:
leadership
coaching
sport/football
sport/nfl

Summary

Bill Walsh's posthumous leadership book — arguing that focusing on process (the Standard of Performance) rather than outcomes (the score) is the secret to sustained excellence — the most widely read American football coaching book.

Core Contribution

Creates the Standard of Performance as a leadership philosophy — Walsh's argument (that a detailed code of conduct and operational standards, applied consistently, produces excellence without focusing on winning) is the most sophisticated coaching leadership philosophy in American sports.

Historical Influences

Paul Brown Vince Lombardi

Intellectual Lineage

Bill Walsh Steve JamisonPortfolio/Penguin

Allied Works

Finding the Winning Edge The Dynasty

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Sports leadership literature Silicon Valley culture

Intellectual Posterity

The Score Takes Care of Itself Standard of Performance Process over outcomes

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