Former NFL and college football coach Daron Roberts offers the following management lessons from his coaching experience: practice your primary strategy thoroughly so you can rely on it when most needed; avoid mission creep by keeping focused on your core goals and purpose; and plan your first key initiatives or moves carefully as with scripting the first 25 plays of a game.

1. MANAGEMENT
LESSONS
FROM THE NFL

2. Former NFL and college football coach for the
Kansas City Chiefs, Detroit Lions, Cleveland
Browns, and West Virginia Mountaineers
DARON ROBERTS
OUR SOURCE:

3. PRACTICE YOUR
“GO-TO” PLAY
THEN GO TO IT

4. AVOID MISSION-CREEP
Eventually you’ll be sitting in
a board meeting wondering,
“What are we here to do, again?”

5. SCRIPT THE FIRST
25 PLAYS

6. Scripting is about knowing
why we’re here and what
we’re here to do.

7. ACT LIKE A
CHAMPION
BEFORE YOU
BECOME ONE

8. Encourage your team
to play like winners
from the start — it’s
an attitude that can
benefit any organization.

9. BE RELENTLESS IN
YOUR EVALUATION
OF TALENT

10. In management, look for
specific skills and don’t be
afraid to cut a weak link.

11. CALCULATE THE RISK
THEN TAKE THE
CALCULATED RISK

12. Sometimes
in order to win,
you’ll have to
take a chance.

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