Hey all – as a bandwagon Pats fan (Lions fan at heart, so I gotta latch onto something) and going with a super bowl themed educational moment this week due to the upcoming weekend, below is a link to an interview with one of the greatest coaches of all time. I firmly believe that the way Belichick approaches football would have made him successful at anything he would have applied himself at in life. The video is about 16 minutes, so I am not going to comment an all of it, but below are some key takeaways.
Belichick’s Core Values that he instills in his team:
- Do your job
- Be attentive to detail
- Put your teammates first
The importance of preparation – “Every battle is won or lost before it is fought” – Sun Tzu; one of the things that I have always really appreciated about NEDC is their investment in their employees, that we recognize the need improve constantly in order to be the best at what we do in design, production, and as a company, and I feel that we have always been willing to invest in that.
Game planning – “if it’s too complicated it’s not going to work, and if it’s too simple it’s not going to work” – Belichick is referring to the plays he draws up, but I loved this is reference to our designs. The combination of design/build I think really enables us to hit that “sweet spot” in between what he is talking about. If the design is too complicated it is likely too expensive, but if the design is too simple (uninspired) then why did the client come to us in the first place?
Play to play – When I was playing this was my favorite part about football – that hard end and start to every play really allowed one to erase what had happened, and focus on what they can do better on the next play. Life and work tend to be more fluid than that – no whistles defining ends or snaps defining beginnings. It is easy to get lost in that fluidity and to focus on the past – why we are where we are, what brought us here, etc. – when all that really matters and the only thing that we have control over is what we do next. Every moment is a chance to be better.
No medals for trying – the only thing that matters is the result, not how hard you tried or worked. We can look at the process internally and how to improve it, but at the end of the day the only thing our clients care about is what we provided for them. Great design, great construction, great space.
We could go on and on, but GO PATS (sorry Dave!).
Brad started with NEDC in Summer 2013 as a Carpenter, and then later shifted in to the Lead Designer position when an opening occurred within the company eventually transitioning into the Business Development Manager, aligning with his education and work experience as an architectural designer. He has a background performing carpentry as part of a framing crew and remodeling. He found that he preferred finding design-oriented solutions for combining the old with new and interacting with clients who really cared about the investment in their home, and has remained in the remodeling industry since. Brad buys books faster than he can read them and fears that by the time he gets around to building his own home, he will need extra structural support just to hold the weight of his library. He is currently finishing his thesis at Boston Architectural College.
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