Pete Carroll — Something Good Is Just About to Happen
Written by Jerry Roberts. Follow me on Twitter.
Attitude, Change, Innovation, Leadership, Motivation, Videos
Here I am a UCLA fan since I began to follow sports as a kid, and I’m putting the USC coach on my Web site. I’ll probably hear about it from a couple of my Bruins buddies, but it’s hard not to like Pete Carroll for what he represents.
In this 12-minute video, CBS’ 60 Minutes talks to Carroll a little about football and a lot about life — and the difference he is having with troubled youth in the gang-infested streets of South-Central Los Angeles.
This is a great example of how to leverage one’s celebrity into a different kind of currency than most celebs pursue. Carroll uses his name and position to get peoples’ attention, then gives of himself to help others. It doesn’t get any better than that.
Carroll’s mantra is, “Something good is just about to happen.”
Imagine if every manager believed that and walked around his/her organization with that attitude, and could get their team members to drink as little bit of that kool aid.

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