Pep Guardiola: What Man City Boss Said On Monday Night Football

Here's a good interview with Pep Guardiola from "Monday Night Football."

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"I try to convince them to run like the most humble team in the world, that is our secret, and they know. If they don't do it they don't play, they go alongside me on the bench. I can forgive absolutely everything, mistakes, but if they don't run they are not with us. They have to fight. I don't like to see players saying 'I'm good, the other 10 play for me', I don't like that. You run because after that they are going to run for you. Our physicality in terms of sprints are always high, that is one of our secrets, more than tactics, our spirit, consistency, competition; try to run, that's good."

II. Humbly, We Put The Team First Regardless Of Our Circumstances

On high performance teams, decisions are made in the best interest of the collective. The collective is defined as a group of individuals singularly focused on something bigger than themselves. I took the second half of that definition from Jim Collins' definition of humility: "being in service to something much bigger than yourself; the humility comes from realizing how much bigger that something is." Collins offered that definition when asked about Steve Jobs as as humble leader. Here is a link to the full interview.