Jim Harbaugh Effect: Changes in his first year to transform Michigan Football

Below are 4 things I noticed that Harboaugh changed when he took the head coaching job at Michigan.

1. Recruiting.
   1. Moving from regional to national focus. Harbaugh completed a nine-day, seven-state blitz of satellite camps, including several in the heart of SEC country.
   2. Brand – Then came “Signing of the Stars,” the national signing day event filled with pomp, circumstance and celebrity. Partnering with The Players’ Tribune, Derek Jeter’s outfit, Michigan had Jeter, a Wolverines fan, and Tom Brady introducing recruits. Ric Flair wooed and Jim Leyland hit the Dab with hip-hop group Migos.
   3. He has also hired prominent high school coaches as assistants, had his big, Signing Day blowout and recently agreed to speak at the commencement of one of the nation’s top high school football powers.
2. Coaching Staff.
   1. He’s filled his staff with veteran coaches. In addition to his 10 coaches, he also has 6 analysts, one for each major area of strategy.
3. Location strategy
   1. Widening the geographic scope and focus of recruiting.
4. Lengthen Practices.
   1. The maximum time allowed for practices in the spring is 4 hours. When he took the was hired, he watched game tape from the previous year and noticed in the 4th quarter the team was fatigued more than their opponent. So he decided to extend practice times to 4 hours. He also moved practices outside.
   2. Something that’s proved to be one of the biggest tests for players through Michigan football’s spring practice slate has been the sheer length of the time they’re on the field. Full practice sessions have lasted upwards of four hours, which is significantly longer than what many of the players have experienced before.
   3. “Practicing outside (is a major difference),” said redshirt junior Jehu Chesson. “We’ve never practiced outside in the spring, at least through my years here. We’ve always been in Glick, and it’s great to be outside and feel the sunshine. We’re on the field for a long time too. Just great competition, and if you love football you’ll love this.”

http://www.mlive.com/sports/2016/06/how_michigans_recruiting_is_ev.html

Summary of 16 Laws of Success

About: The work was originally commissioned at the request of Andrew Carnegie at the conclusion of a multi-day interview with Hill, and was based upon interviews of over 100 American millionaires across nearly 20 years, including such self-made industrial giants as Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison.

Personal Introduction: As I transition into a new career and life phase, I want to anchor my transition in principles that will help me succeed. I downloaded the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill which references this list of Successful. I found each law and listed them below for an easy way to read the breadth of it. There are also some websites that have a similar list and they are listed at the end of this document.

1. A Definite Purpose – A Definite Purpose will teach you how to save the wasted effort which the majority of people expend in trying to find their life-work. This lesson will show you how to do away forever with aimlessness and fix your heart and hand upon some definite, well-conceived purpose as a life-work. Without a purpose and a plan, people drift aimlessly through life.
2. Self-Confidence – Self-Confidence will help you master the six basic fears with which every person is cursed: the fear of Poverty, the fear of Ill Health, the fear of Old Age, the fear of Criticism, the fear of Loss of Love of Someone, and the fear of Death. It will teach you the difference between egotism and real self-confidence which is based upon definite, usable knowledge.
3. Initiative and Leadership – Initiative and leadership will show you how to become a leader instead of a follower in your chosen field of endeavor. It will develop in you the instinct for leadership which will cause you gradually to gravitate to the top in all undertakings in which you participate.
4. Imagination – IMAGINATION will stimulate your mind so that you will conceive new ideas and develop new plans which will help you in attaining the object of your Definite Chief Aim. This lesson will teach you how to “build new homes out of old stones”, so to speak. It will show you how to create new ideas out of old, well known concepts, and how to put old ideas to new uses. This one lesson, alone, is the equivalent of a very practical course in salesmanship, and it is sure to prove a veritable gold mine of knowledge to the person who is in earnest.
5. Action –  Action – As a matter of facts imaginations and purposes cannot yield anything unless action is taken to realize the purpose. Actions prove the practicability of our imaginations. When powered with clear purpose and strong leadership it yields desired results [requires further contribution and reference]
6. Enthusiasm – Enthusiasm will enable you to “saturate” all with whom you come in contact with interest in you and in your ideas. Enthusiasm is the foundation of a Pleasing Personality, and you must have such a personality in order to influence others to co-operate with you.
7. Self Control –  Self-control is the “balance wheel” with which you control your enthusiasm and direct it where you wish it to carry you. This lesson will teach you, in a most practical manner, to become “the master of your fate, the Captain of your Soul.
8. The Habit of Performing More Service Than Paid For –  The Habit Of Performing More Service Than Paid For is one of the most important lessons of the Law of Success course. It will teach you how to take advantage of the Law of Increasing Returns, which will eventually ensure you a return in money far out of proportion to the service you render. No one may become a real leader in any walk of life without practicing the habit of doing more work and better work than that for which he is paid.
9. Attractive Personality –  Attractive Personality is the “fulcrum” on which you must place the “crow-bar” of your efforts, and when so placed, with intelligence, it will enable you to remove mountains of obstacles. This one lesson, alone, has made scores of Master Salesmen. It has developed leaders overnight. It will teach you how to transform your personality so that you may adapt yourself to any environment, or to any other personality, in such a manner that you may easily dominate. Personality is the sum total of one’s mental, spiritual and physical traits and habits that distinguish one from all others. It is the factor that determines whether one is liked or disliked by others.
10. Accurate Thinking –  Accurate Thought is one of the important foundation stones of all enduring success. This lesson teaches you how to separate “facts” from mere “information.” It teaches you how to organize known facts into two classes: the “important” and the “unimportant.” It teaches you how to determine what is an “important” fact. It teaches you how to build definite working plans, in the pursuit of any calling, out of FACTS. It illustrates how the eyes of an accurate thinker sees only facts and not delusions of prejudice, hate and envy. It explains how accurate thought depends on deductive reasoning and creative thought.
11. Concentration –  Concentration teaches you how to focus your attention upon one subject at a time until you have found a way to master that subject and have put that knowledge into operation. He gives you techniques on how to ensure that your goal is concentrated on until you have completed that goal.
12. Tolerance. Toleration will teach you how to avoid the disastrous effects of racial and religious prejudices which mean defeat for millions of people who permit themselves to become entangled into foolish argument over these subjects, thereby poisoning their own minds and closing the door to reason and investigation. This lesson is the twin sister of the one on ACCURATE THOUGHT, for the reason that no one may become an Accurate Thinker without practicing tolerance. Intolerance closes the book of knowledge and writes on the cover, “Finished, I have learned it all!” Intolerance makes enemies of those who should be friends. It destroys opportunity and fills the mind with doubt, mistrust and prejudice.
13. Failure. Failure will teach you how to make stepping stones out of all of your past and future mistakes and failures. It will teach you the difference between “failures” and “temporary defeat,” a difference which is very great and important. It will teach you how to profit by your own failures and by the failures of other people.
14. Cooperation –  CO-OPERATION will teach you the value of team-work in all you do. In this lesson you will be taught how to apply the law of the “Master Mind” described in this Introduction and in Lesson Two of this course. This lesson will show you how to co-ordinate your own efforts with those of others, in such a manner that friction, jealousy, strife, envy and cupidity will be eliminated. You will learn how to make use of all that other people have learned about the work in which you are engaged.
15. Habit of Saving –  Habit of Saving will teach you the value of saving money.
16. The Golden Rule –  The Golden Rule will teach you how to make use of the great universal law of human conduct in such a manner that you may easily get harmonious co-operation from any individual or group of individuals. Lack of understanding of the law upon which the Golden Rule philosophy is based, is one of the major causes of failure of millions of people who remain in misery, poverty and want all their lives. This lesson has nothing whatsoever to do with religion in any form, nor with sectarianism, nor have any of the other lessons of this course on the Law of Success.

 

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