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Nothing Personal with David Samson

What role do star players have in hiring a new coach?

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘empowerment’ as in who are we going to empower as in if you empower the wrong person you’re in trouble as in DeShaun Watson has got the power! What do I mean by this? He is the star quarterback of the Houston Texans and he was asked about what the Texans need in a new head coach. Let’s go through the conversation that the front office should be having with DeShaun Watson to make sure that there is no power tripping going on in Houston (0:06). The Jacksonville Jaguars fired Doug Marrone and the team’s owner Shad Khan made a statement that was show worthy. These are the type of statements that just make me laugh. Laugh with me, won’t you (11:35)? So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about John Elway taking an ‘elevated position’ within the Denver Broncos organization, but still remaining the President of Football Operations. What? How could that be (18:09)? Review - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (28:05). How many times have you got got on social media? When someone tweets something and it’s a bunch of malarkey from either a fake account or someone running a fake story? Has this ever happened to you? It happens to the biggest companies in the world too (31:45). The entirety of the NCAA tournament will be held in Indianapolis. March Madness under one roof! Why do you think this bubble was formed (40:40)? #waittosee -------------------------- 'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts.   Follow David on Twitter: @DavidPSamson  To watch David on CBS Sports HQ visit https://www.cbssports.com/live/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ https://www.youtube.com/nothingpersonalwithdavidsamson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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There you go.

0:07.0

Empowerment, nothing personal word of the day, Tuesday, January 5, 2021 is empowerment.

0:14.8

What does that mean?

0:16.2

That is when you feel you are in a position to exert power either because you have misunderstood

0:23.0

that you have that right or you understand that you've been given that right or you falsely

0:29.6

or incorrectly or mistakenly have been given that right and that power or you falsely

0:35.6

or mistakenly believe you have that right.

0:39.4

Athletes have a long history as do executives as do employees in any business of feeling

0:44.3

empowered is the expression we have.

0:47.8

Here's the problem with empowerment is that if it's in the wrong hands, your organization

0:54.7

will have a big problem.

0:57.2

Either as an owner, you have to decide who you are going to empower.

1:02.6

As a manager in your business, you have to decide who you are going to empower.

1:08.4

Then you evaluate that person based on what they do with the power you gave them.

1:14.6

Of course there will be people you come across who feel empowered, who didn't get it from

1:18.6

you and they do well with it.

1:22.1

Those people get promotions.

1:24.2

Then there's people who feel empowered, it wasn't given to them.

1:28.3

They misuse it and they get fired or cut or traded or released.

1:36.2

I woke up on a random Tuesday morning in 2021 thinking about player empowerment because

1:42.2

to Sean Watson had quite a few things to say yesterday.

1:46.0

Just Sean Watson is the quarterback for the Houston Texans.

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