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Make Each Day Your Masterpiece

GOOD CLOCK MANAGEMENT IS AS 157
IMPORTANT IN BUSINESS AS IN SPORTS

Time is finite; its potential, infinite. The quality of your alloca-
tion and execution of time determines the level of your success.
America’s great poet Carl Sandburg understood this well:
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and
only you determine how it will be spent.” Effective leaders
spend it most wisely.

I believe effective organization—time management—was one of
my key assets as a coach. In fact, organization was perhaps my great-
est strength. I understood how to use time to its most productive
ends. Gradually, I learned how to get the most out of every minute.

RUNNING PRACTICE
My skills in the area of running practice—clock management, you
might call it—may have begun when I was participating in prac-
tices conducted by my college coach, Ward Lambert. His sessions
were highly organized and extremely efficient. He seemed to move
at 70 miles an hour. Coach Lambert delivered instructions, infor-
mation, and advice on the run during scrimmages and rarely
stopped practice to address the group as a whole. Instead, he would
take a player aside briefly for instruction while the rest of us con-
tinued working; not a moment was wasted. Everybody was doing
something productive during every minute of Coach Lambert’s
practices at Purdue.
Never did we stand around shooting the breeze. The only breeze
came from Purdue Boilermakers racing up and down the court—