Written by Bart Doan at Bloguin
Some coaches are retiring these days, but a lot of coaches are being fired, which brings up the subject of purposefully changing coaches. Let’s say a few things about the matter.
Smart people keep backup lists for everything important.
You know the ones, like when you’re dating and just in case your girlfriend kicks you to the curb, and when you have a cordial family gathering and you need someone to attend, you call a certain one, but if you’re going out to a ball game and a party afterwards, you call the other one.
Or when you’re a manager and you have a team of employees, knowing that the good ones will try to move on, so you keep a list of names in the drawer that might be willing and able to step into Good Employee X’s position when they leave?
Until you’re locked into something special — marriage, Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan with the Chicago Bulls, whatever — smart folks keep replacement lists in the event the time comes when you are forced to make an immediate change.
We’re entering into that time of year when everyone that is underachieving is pointing their spears at the guy with the headset, no matter how long he’s been there.
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