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How Do You Motivate A Millionaire?
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(Part two) - by Bill Barber
Last week the coaching staff o f the
Portland T rad Blazers was asked about
how they m otivated the team. This
week it's the players’ turn to tell what
motivates them.
Q uite a few fans would probably
guess the best way to motivate a player
w ould be w ith money. For average
people w ho w ork a 40 hour week that is
usually a rather good incentive. It may
not be an effective way to get the atten
tion o f the 324 young men who play
N B A basketball. A fte r all, i f their
salaries are added together, they would
make more money than most third world
countries.
A laa Abdelnaby said his most
memorable pep talk was during his
senioryearat Duke University. Warmth
is not the long s u ito f Head Coach M ike
K rzyew ski, who is w ell known for his
strictly-business approach to the game.
"The last home game o f m y senior year,
Coach K ' came up to me to say he really
appreciated what I'd done fo r the last
fo ur years and that he really loved me.
It was kin d o f a warm and touching
moment. In my four years at Duke, I
had good and bad times, but 1 had never
seen the coach in that ligh t before. We
ended up losing that game anyway,
Alaa laughed looking back.
Terry Porter said "Coaches some
times have something to say at h a lf
time, but i f its a big enough game, the
players are 'pumped' already."
C liff Robinson's most memorable
pep talks were during his A A U League
days back in Buffalo, N Y . "W e had a
coach who always told us we were the
underdogs. He would remind us that we
were the players who were not recog
nized. He'd talk about how (opponent)
Mark Bryant was going to k ill me be
cause he was one o f the top forwards in
the country. I ended up fouling out but
1 played really w ell that day."
Buck W illiam s remembered a time
during the latter part o f his New Jersey
days when injuries had sent them into
the game shorthanded. "The coach told
us about a battle that was won by the
side that was outnumbered tw o to one.
It was very appropriate at the time. We
went out and won the ballgame."
Clyde Drexler says the most reoc
Johnson and Johnson Awards
1.2 Million For Headstart Management Training
On February 12 Johnson and John
son announced a three-year $1.2 m il
lion grant to help Head Start directors
across the country manage more effec
tive ly the recent rapid expansion o f the
highly successful federal program.
The grant supports the Head Start
Johnson and Johnson Management Fel
lows Program, which provides local
Head Start directors w ith specially de
signed management training at John E.
Anderson Graduate School o f Manage
ment at the U niversity o f C alifornia at
Los Angeles (U .C J-.A .)
The program, which was tested last
June, aims to sharpen the management
s k ills o f local Head Start directors, most
o f whom are trained in education or
social work, so they can cope success
fu lly w ith effort to expand Head Start to
many more lower-income pre-school
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children.
The program was created in re
sponse to a Johnson and Johnson com
missioned study indicating that local
HeadStart directors would benefit from
management skills training as they seek
to expand their operations and at the
same time, maintain aconsistently high
quality o f services. Johnson and John
son and the Head Start Bureau then
collaborated w ith U .C .L.A . to create
the special educational program, which
draws on actual problems faced by the
Head Start directors. The p ilo t was
launched w ith an intensive tw o week
management course fo r 40 Head Start
directors at U C LA last June.
R alph S. Larsen , Johnson &
Johnson’ s Chairman and CEO said, “ It
is part, o f Johnson & Johnson’ s com m it
ment to improve the health status o f at
risk children and their mothers and to
increase their awareness and knowledge
o f healthy behaviors.” M r. Lausen fu r
ther noted that “ Head Start is w idely
acknowledged to be one o f the most
effective ways to provide early ch ild
hood education, health screening, and
preventive care services and access to
social socials for disadvantaged fam i
lies.”
Each year during the program, 40
local Head Start directors w ill be se
lected to attend an intensive two-week
course at U C L A to sharpen their skills in
strategic planning, developing and man
aging financial and human resources,
and program evaluation. As part o f the
program, Head Start directors develop a
Management Improvement Project to be
under taken in the next year to enhance
their Head Start program back home.
As participants complete the pro
gram they become part o f a network o f
Head Start directors who w ill help other
Head Start staff develop management
skills, there by extending the benefits o f
their skills training.
The 1992 class o f Head Start John
son & Johnson Management Fellow w ill
attend U C L A from June 21 through July
31. Selection o f participants is competi
tive and w ill take place in March. The
National Head Start Convention w ill be
held on A p ril 30 through May 1 in San
Diego.
The “ 91 ” Fellows w ill attend a mas
ter class and the 92 Fellows w ill be
presented at that time.
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curring theme during his years in the
game has been "stand u p ... do the best
you can do ... don't q uit ... and give
110% e ffort. I can live w ith e ffo rt
everytime, but don't be a quitter. That
is what coach Guy Lew is always used to
say." Then D rexler said something that
may have been T H E answer to the
original question o f " How do you m o ti
vate a M illionaire?" "Coaches like to
appeal to your sense o f pride. Nobody
likes to lose." That sounds down to
earth logical. It must not be the money,
because no one ever tells a story o f an
N B A coach calling a time out in the last
seconds o f a tight game to offer the star
player $100.00 i f he w ill only make a
basket to w in the game.
"Appeal to their sense o f pride."
said Clyde. That must be the answer.
Whatever the coaches are saying to
the players must be w orking. O r maybe
it is what the players a saying amongst
themselves at their team meetings. In
any event, the Blazer's certainly do a
good job o f being motivated consider
ing that they have one o f the best records
in the N B A .
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