Sports Quote by Tom DeMarco Download Open image ““Internal competition has the direct effect of making coaching difficult or impossible.”” — Tom DeMarco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sports
“Coaching is unlocking people’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.” — John Whitmore Copy Share Image
“Effective coaching is about challenging assumptions, examining habits, overcoming barriers, and embedding change.” — Ian Day Copy Share Image
“As a coach, your task is to help people break through from one level of performance to another.” — Michael Simpson Copy Share Image
Coaching is about not being afraid to be challenged and, above all, trying to enjoy the experience. — Warren Gatland Copy Share Image
“a coach helps build the capacity of others by facilitating their learning.” — Elena Aguilar Copy Share Image
Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. — Timothy Gallwey Copy Share Image
When you have a coach that is a competitor, that wants to win more than anything else, it really carries over to the team. — Rudy Gobert Copy Share Image
“More important than any gimmick you introduce is a change in attitude. People must learn that it’s okay sometimes not to answer their phones,… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“We have become so obsessed with getting rid of people who are burdened with the characterization overhead that we have ended up with organizations… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value. — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“The most obvious defensive management ploys are prescriptive Methodologies (“My people are too dumb to build systems without them” ) and technical interference by… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“The need for uniformity is a sign of insecurity on the part of management. Strong managers don’t care when team members cut their hair… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“If you’ve got decent people under you, there is probably nothing you can do to improve their chances of success more dramatically than to… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“While this [10 to 1] productivity differential among programmers is understandable, there is also a 10 to 1 difference in productivity among software organizations” — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it. — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“in the best organizations, the short term is not the only thing that matters. What matters more is being best. And that’s a long-term… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
If you take your eye off the ball or lose focus for even a minute you can lose a game against any team. — Felipe Anderson Copy Share Image
Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter,… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
