Imagine That You Are in Charge of a Football Team

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Essay

Imagine that you are in charge of a football team.Several of the players including the quarterback and the running back get most of the glory when the team succeeds.However,other players,like the linebackers,have to do a lot of hard and highly skilled work in order for the team to win.Use the insights you have gained from Chapter 5 to describe what steps you would take to motivate the linebackers to work hard.

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