The athletes we work with often have the benefit of video analysis of their training sessions, taken for them by their coach. Having delivered a training session, the coach and athlete will sit down and analyse the “performance”, sometimes frame by frame to determine how effectivley fundamentals have been delivered and how well goals for [...]
Click on the lovely picture of the fire ants to watch a video of how they have adapted to deal with their home being flooded.
No, this isn’t simply an ant team building challenge in the Amazon!
These ants understand what team primacy is. Forming a raft from just their linked together bodies they float as a colony [...]
Risks you can afford to take - Risks you can not afford to take - Risks you can afford not to take - Risks you can not afford not to take…
Four different kinds of risks… and do those risks look very different in the current climate? Risks that you could previously afford not to take [...]
We know from the greatest people we’ve worked with that they’re superb at consistently carrying around with them the ideas that…Their natural talent is not enough for them to excel…They have to constantly keep working on where to focus their desire to improve… andThey have to embrace change and drive change if they’re going to [...]
So I’m sitting on the stationary bike doing a warm down session after a half marathon on Sunday. It’s a bike in a hotel gym though exactly the same make and model as the bike I use at my local gym. It’s only a warm down session so I’m not going crazy -even so I [...]
Whilst having a rare flick through the FT the other day, we happened across a book review for “Managing to Learn Using The A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor, and Lead” by John Shook. Not the most enticing of titles! However, the FT article was entitled “The Toyota mindset revealed”, which got [...]
in pressure situations.Often the success of delivering when facing challenging conditions can be influence greatly by being able to hold two paradoxical beliefs at the same time.For example, in Good to Great, Jim Collins introduces the Stockdale Paradox, in which he outlines the importance of being able to “confront the brutal reality of the situation [...]
We received the following feedback on planet K2 yesterday. Not only did it make us feel quite good about ourselves, but we also realised that there’s quite a bit we can learn from these select words, particularly when it comes to filling the physical component of the performance pie…“My training continues – making the right [...]
Looking for a previous article from HBR on resilience I came across the attached old favourite which seems as pertinent now as it did in Jan 2001 (when the market was bouyant).The Making of a Corporate Athlete
“It’s subtle this performance coaching stuff, but it works. This time last year if circumstances had been the same I’d have been sh*!ing myself and unhealthily pessimistic. This year I’m still pessimistic, but understand that this pessimism is actually useful. If I use it appropriately, it helps me to perform better. Also, last year, I’d [...]