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What My Sport Taught Me: Teamworks Founder & CEO Zach Maurides
4/22/2020 2:20:00 PM | Football
This excerpt was taken from an article written by Zach Maurides as told to Alexis Busse of NCAA After The Game® on April 22, 2020.
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At an early age, football taught me what it meant to set ambitious, long-term goals and then take the day-to-day steps to see them come to fruition.
I started playing in grade school, but it wasn't until at least a decade later that I became a collegiate-level athlete. I may not have known immediately, but I was developing hard skills which became transferrable to my professional career and, ultimately, the world of business. Football taught me the grind.
In college, I played for four offensive coordinators, three position coaches and two head coaches. It was an incredible experience because I was exposed to different leaders and leadership styles, and from that, I started to figure out what parts fit with who I was becoming as a young entrepreneur.
When I launched my startup company, Teamworks, as a Duke student-athlete, I was tasked with creating the energy. I've always been a big, loud guy, and I've never really tamped that down. I think that's part of my personality that developed from football — it has a culture. It was up to me to pinpoint the elements that could work well in a business environment, then lead my team like a coach as opposed to a boss.
This is excerpted from NCAA After The Game® and to read the full article click HERE.Â
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