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Management Lessons from The New York Giants | Career Angles
Imagine you are the leader of a business. You hire a management team, as well as assistant managers. Each assistant manager has an area of responsibility. One assistant manager as a group is not performing up to standards.
As the leader of the business, do you step in and try to help?
Most people would say, “Yes,” and that is what New York Giants head coach Joe Judge did. His offense of line was not performing well so he got involved and start to work with one of the players. The offensive line coach, Marc Columbo acted as if his power was being usurped. As soon as the head coach became involved, the offense of wine start to perform better.
Was that the reason or was it because the line just started to gel at that time. We don’t know and no one says. What we do know is that the head coach decided to hire someone to assist that coach so that he didn’t have to.
As the story goes, the line coach was angry and started to yell at his boss. This was not the first time it had occurred. Thus, one day, the line coach was heading for his car when he was approached by Giants security, brought the human resources and fired.
I’m a fan. When I heard that this coach was fired, I was shocked. After all, he was someone who had a great reputation from his…