Comments on: Task Excellence + Relationship Excellence, Both Are Essential http://www.michaelleestallard.com/task-excellence-relationship-excellence-both-are-essential Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:25:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael Lee Stallard http://www.michaelleestallard.com/task-excellence-relationship-excellence-both-are-essential/comment-page-1#comment-127343 Michael Lee Stallard Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:29:43 +0000 http://www.michaelleestallard.com/?p=1376#comment-127343 Tom, Thanks for your comment and for sharing Lombardi's "second effort." I grew up North of Rockford, Illinois (just south of Beloit, Wisconsin) and was a big Packers fan during the Bart Starr years. Mike Tom,

Thanks for your comment and for sharing Lombardi’s “second effort.” I grew up North of Rockford, Illinois (just south of Beloit, Wisconsin) and was a big Packers fan during the Bart Starr years.

Mike

]]> By: Thomas J. Lee http://www.michaelleestallard.com/task-excellence-relationship-excellence-both-are-essential/comment-page-1#comment-127341 Thomas J. Lee Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:08:13 +0000 http://www.michaelleestallard.com/?p=1376#comment-127341 You are exactly right about Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers of the 1960s. It was all about the effort to win. After a game the Packers won but didn't exert the all-out effort Lombardi wanted, he would berate the players. After a game they lost but had exerted everything they had and then some, he would console them. It was all about the effort. One more recollection from those days (I was a teenager who grew up just outside Green Bay). Lombardi coined the term "second effort," referring to the resilience and perseverance he wanted and expected from running backs and receivers after they had been tackled. You are exactly right about Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers of the 1960s. It was all about the effort to win. After a game the Packers won but didn’t exert the all-out effort Lombardi wanted, he would berate the players. After a game they lost but had exerted everything they had and then some, he would console them. It was all about the effort.

One more recollection from those days (I was a teenager who grew up just outside Green Bay). Lombardi coined the term “second effort,” referring to the resilience and perseverance he wanted and expected from running backs and receivers after they had been tackled.

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