Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.

The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see.

There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.