Chapter 22
Better Today than Yesterday
What’s missing? What can I do better? How can I show my team I’m on their bus? George thought as he sat at the bus stop Wednesday morning thinking about his conversations with Jamie and José and his team’s overall performance yesterday. The day’s events ran through his mind in the way a football coach would revisit every play of a game or a dancer would rehash every move, every twist, and every turn of her performance. It is then that one remembers successes and mistakes and thinks of “should haves” and “could haves.” It is a critical time that one improves if they are willing to learn, grow from mistakes, and build upon their success. George had always known this but somewhere along the way he had forgotten to stop learning and growing.
But now he was thinking clearly again and he remembered the great advice he had received from his college lacrosse coach, who had told him, “The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.” Indeed George wanted to be a better leader, a better person, a better husband, and a better father. He wanted José to feel good about working for him and he wanted Jamie to see that he wasn’t going to implode. George’s goal was to improve every day, help his team improve, and hopefully deliver an incredible launch to the executives of the NRG Company. He knew it was a long shot ...