My experience at TransPerfect has also made me understand how incredibly valuable embracing a player-coach management model can be to the business.
The award, which will be presented at the association's annual meeting Dec. 6 at the Westchester Country Club in Harrison, N.Y., is based on a point system that embraces a player's finishes in designated local, national and international events.
In many cases, players initially embrace a players' coach -- willing to give up cartilage for the man's cause -- just before taking advantage of him.
Mr. Erskine called Brooklyn "a historical place," and said an overriding part of that was its willingness to do something that no other baseball town seemed eager to do: embrace a black player, Jackie Robinson.
Watching them make their opening bids or speak the ritualistic dialect understood by fellow bridge players -- "heart," "no trump," "double" -- was to witness yet another generation of players embracing a social activity that sometimes is dismissed as a curious artifact of a simpler, slower age.
Guardiola could be seen embracing Yaya Touré, a player he had previously ostracised, and City certainly looked better for their new training routine.
Saying that you would embrace an openly gay player speaks volumes and gives thousands of kids hope.
Paul Hewitt, the coach and father figure of this band of brothers, said Sunday that "they're very, very unselfish" and that his players embraced a style like that which Larry Bird of Indiana State and Magic Johnson of Michigan State revived 25 years ago in the N.C.A.A. championship game.
We're already seeing some players embrace a "we work directly with the artist" message (many of the claims are, sadly, superficial), while those who've practiced this since inception are seeing even greater success.
At the end of Saturday's 2-1 comebatk at Watford the Italian made a pointed effort of embracing every player.
