Small adjustments to your working practices can help encourage a higher work rate from all employees.
It is also true that the outstanding No 9s around the world have a high work rate and aerobic capacity: a big engine, if you like.
Here Carlos Tevez was City's most visible presence in attack, retaining his high work rate until his slightly surprising substation, while David Silva began to exert some scattered influence between the lines as Wigan faded a little around the hour mark.
The young, raw Belgian striker has started all three of Klopp's games in charge at the club so far and, despite his high work rate, is yet to prove he can provide a consistent stream of goals.
The truly successful teams are usually the ones that have a top-class openside flanker, the man who has a high work rate, is a destructive tackler and goes in and wins turnover ball at the breakdown.
It will not be easy though, as Paige has a tendency to swarm her opponent and keep a high work rate until the pressure begins to expose some weaknesses.
Clarke's frustration had to be set against the fact that, despite the high work rate of Swann, England's over rate was desperately at odds with any serious ambition to win a Test match when such a possibility was still feasible for a team which had been outplayed so thoroughly for most of the match.
It's about high work rate and volume of punches, but also staying on the move.
