I am just like Bill Parcells

Bill Parcells is/was a great coach. I do know he has made mistakes in his career and the last mistake is the one that  is freshest on my mind. He picked a super star to be on his team,  but the super star wasn’t a team player. This guy had an attitude that “the world revolved around him”. Bill Parcells thought he could change him. Well he couldn’t and it eventually cost him his job. 

Bill Parcells is famous and I am not. Okay I said it. 

I do wonder if I have similarities with him. I love to take on a challenge and I even have the attitude that “oh, I could help him”.  Actually, I am saying I can fix him. Where I work we have this test called CDAT (can do anything). I scored very high on it. Sometimes a high score on this test can also be a fault. Heck my one of my favorite quotes is: “if we can put a man on the moon we can figure this out”. I am not cocky, I just really believe together we can find a way to get the mission accomplished.  

The Bill Parcells scenario makes me think, do I sometimes get in the way of the team by thinking I can fix this person? I know I can change them. Do I mess with the team chemistry because it is about me? Does anyone else hang on to a person to long even though it affects the team? What about you? Have you kept someone on your team that you should have cut ties with?