Chip Kelly, world's greatest manager.

For those of you unaware, Chip Kelly is the rookie coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, who was known for his unique, high-powered, offensive scheme while at Oregon.

There was a large amount of doubt as to whether or not Kelly's system would transfer well to the NFL, and the critics appeared to be correct towards the beginning of the season, as the Eagles began the season at 3-5.

Then something clicked, and the Eagles won 6 out of their next 7 games to make it to the playoffs... while posting the second largest number of yards, turning a backup quarterback into a quarterback with the 3rd highest quarterback rating of all time, generating the first rushing leader to come out of Philadelphia since 1979, and scoring the most points against DAAAA BEAAAARS(I'm from Northern Illinois, so I actually kind of talk like that) in my lifetime.

So what happened? 

“[The offense] was put together by a bunch of guys on our staff who are really smart, and [it] played to our players’ strengths,” Kelly said. “If we have a different set of players, then the offense would look different. This offense didn’t look like it looked when I was at Oregon.”

It takes time to get to know your players, once he got to know their strengths and weaknesses he was able to properly mold his system around them, and the results speak for themselves.

What does this have to do with being a manager?

Everybody has their natural strengths and weaknesses... Let's take me for instance: I am great at sprinting to build things, without a clear sense of what the next step is and am completely comfortable experimenting, yet I am absolutely atrocious at multi-tasking, organization, and things that feel like walking on a treadmill or putting out a fire.

If Chip Kelly was a manager he would mold a system to highlight his managees' strengths and mask their weaknesses. Granted, everybody will have to do stuff they aren't the most skilled at, but that should be the exception, not the rule; even quarterbacks have to hold kicks every now and then(but we all know how that one worked out for Romo a few years ago).