…Fast Execution, is one of the statements that goes towards making up Oblique Strategies and this particular one speaks 100% to everything that being an elite performer is all about. The typical approach we get to see is Fast (or no) Preparation and Frantic Execution. The lack of preparation leads to lack of total control [...]
There’s an often written about concept of “flow” in the world of performance psychology (and there’s a good chunk of it in ‘flavour of the month’ book Drive). The theory says that you reach the much sought after state of flow when there is a perfect match between the level of challenge you face and [...]
If you see the previous post (Understand your purpose), you’ll see how we found our way to Dan Pink’s book Drive.
For anyone reading the blog who we’ve had the pleasure of working with in the past, we’d highly recommend you read this book. It’ll help bring the 3C’s totally to life and will increase your desire [...]
In a Harvard Business Review blog article is the following paragraph:
“Dan tells a story about Clare Booth Luce, the playwright, journalist, and Republican Member of Congress. In 1962, Luce met with President Kennedy, who was, at the time, pursuing an ambitious agenda domestically and overseas. She worried about his diffuse priorities. “A great man,” she advised [...]
Evidently we’re worthy of a very grand title in the FT - Business Wisdom! We see it more as stating the obvious… but nice that the folks at the FT think it’s wisdom!
Making this week great…
On a monday morning, it’s a good idea to think about how you’re going to benefit from your strengths, rather than just be in possession of them for another week (without them adding anything specific to you). Just as an elite athlete would look ahead to a particular match or performance and [...]
So, we talk a lot about strengths on here and playing to your strengths, as well as developing them. One of the benefits of this kind of approach is that it’s a completely no risk approach to personal development work. If you identify your strengths and choose to work on improving one of more of [...]
It seems the interpretation of the change in Mr Crosby in the final of the Olympic Ice Hockey tournament may have been correct (see a couple of posts down from here). Speaking after the match, this is what the match winner had to say about his goal:
“I didn’t see it go in the net, I [...]
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