This piece originally appeared in the June 2023 edition of DS News magazine, online now.
All industries and businesses follow different playbooks. In football, for example, a playbook contains a formula for winning games. For each play, players practice the playbook by lining up in their correct positions and run plays, with their role for each play sometimes dependent upon the defense’s set up. Through practice and repetition, the team learns to master the entire playbook.
In the end, however, a football playbook requires execution with accuracy and efficiency only on gameday.