Dick Vermeil: Leadership Through the Eyes of a Football Coach [Archive.org URL]

Former football coach Dick Vermeil is now working with Safeguard Scientifics and Bridge Tech Partners on a $150 million venture capital fund that will support women and minority-owned firms in the technology, media and communications areas. But his ideas about leadership are based on a career in which he led two different teams to the Superbowl two decades apart. Vermeil shared his thoughts on being a leader during a visit to Wharton on Sept. 20 during which he used both anecdotes and an acronym to make his points. As in “The ‘L’ in leadership stands for ‘loyalty’ and ‘like’, the ‘E’ for ‘ego’, the ‘A’ for ..” and so on. You know the drill.

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