It was interesting watching a clip of Cathy Freeman yesterday reflecting on her gold medal success at the Sydney Olympics, in front of 112,000 people, carrying the hopes of a nation and performing under a huge weight of expectation.In the midst of all of that hype, excitement, pressure, hope and expectation, as she warmed up, [...]
Viktor Frankl (author of the great book, Man’s Search for Meaning) observed that “where there is a why, you can endure almost any how”… deep words… but very true.So, have a look around you. We’re in pretty tough times, and the people who have a “why”, either a personal why, team why or organisational why, [...]
You might be interested to read Lawrence Dallaglio’s recent words in a great article in the Times.
This paragraph jumped out for me as being majorly relevant to the current challenges…
“We had great players in specialist areas and leadership was clearly an integral part of our success in 2003. We had Johnson, Vickery, Hill, Back, Greenwood [...]
In some research we were involved in a few years ago, we found a couple of interesting things out about people who were voted as very mentally tough by folks who understood their world.First thing was that mentally tough people had confidence that didn’t break down easily - it wasn’t necessarily very, very high confidence, [...]