#281 Working with Steve Jobs

When Vince Lombardi joined the Green Bay Packers in nineteen fifty nine. The team had gone eleven straight seasons without a winning record. Upon arriving at training camp as their new head coach, Lombardi made an immediate and indelible first impression. After leading the players to a meeting room. Lombardi waited in front of a blackboard.

As the player sat down. He picked up a piece of chalk and began to speak. Gentlemen, he said. We have a great deal of ground to cover. We're gonna do things a lot differently than they've been done here before.

We're going to relentlessly chase perfection. Knowing full well. We will not catch it. Because perfection is not attainable. But we are going to relentlessly chase it.

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