On February 5, 2012 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, a Super Bowl Champion will be crowned.  I do not know which team will win, although, though I am a Cowboys fan, you almost have to root for Manning and the Colts at their home field.

But I know that every team in the league will follow pretty much the same disciplines to try to win the prize.

Here’s what no team will do:  the supervisors of each department (the coaches over each area) will not gather their players together and say, “ok guys – our goal is to win the Super Bowl.  Here’s your assignments – We’ll check back with you in December to see how you are doing.”

You get it, don’t you?!  Such an approach would be ridiculous.

Each team will have countless meetings.  The entire team will meet, and then, each player meets with the other players and the coach over his area, over and over and over again, throughout the season.  They have mid-course corrections every week, every day, every game.  If the defensive coach sees a problem, he will call an “emergency” meeting in the middle of the game, on the sidelines, and give corrective instructions.  And player after player receives one-on-one coaching constantly, throughout each game

These guys take it seriously.

And yet, as seriously as every team, every player, every coach takes it, only one team can come out on top.  It really is a competitive world out there.

So – what’s the point of this short blog post?  It is this.  The ridiculous scenario, the “here’s your assignment, I’ll check back in five months” approach, is exactly how too many people “try to succeed” in their business.  People are given assignments, and then left on their own.  No meetings, no mid-course-correctives – just  “Here’s your assignment – I’ll check back in five months.”  So many leave it all to an “annual performance review” to “check in, and offer needed coaching and correctives.”  This is a guaranteed scenario for failure.

You may not win the Super Bowl, but without regular meetings, constant coaching, mid-course correctives, constant attention, and constant encouragement when the job is well done, you won’t even be able to play on the same field as the big boys.

As I have said and written often, “you accomplish what you meet about!”