At this place, we are not a family.

If you work for a business right now where they tell you that it is a family, you should run away.

A business is a high performing team.

You're either excellent or this place isn't for you.

You don't go to the Chicago Bulls so that you feel comfortable.

You don't go play on Kobe's Laker team so that you can do whatever you want

and you don't have to get any fucking feedback.

Competition is fucking fun, you guys. There's a thrill to trying to see what you're capable of.

This is the Big Deal podcast and I'm Cody Sanchez. Today we're going to talk about how to get on

winning teams, how to run winning teams. and we're going to talk about what it takes

to actually have the life that you want because you can't get very far by yourself.

This is kind of a Cody was having a hissy fit last week situation where I was running some

stuff with teams. Running teams are one of the hardest things you'll ever do in your life. If you've ever done it, you know, whether it's your kids basketball team, or it is your

actual company that you're running. The best part about running a business, the people. The worst part

about running a business, the people. And so this episode is kind of like the hard truth I want to

instill and like bury into the brains of every

single human who works for me. And also young Cody and Cody before she had achieved a lot of things

that she wanted in life. And so if you are worried at all about how do you run better teams,

if you want to be a winner on a team, this episode's for you. I want to start with a story.

And the story is from a book I've

been reading lately called 11 Rings by Phil Jackson, who is one of the most storied basketball

coaches of all time. He won with Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen during the Chicago Bulls era,

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