…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 [...]
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’d like to invite you all to take part in an experiment - and of course let us know any results you might experience.We talk a lot about the importance of feedback and the fact that elite performers crave feedback and seek it out, rather than waiting for it to “happen” to them once or [...]
or do they run you? (a great line from Accenture… thanks for that!). Just been reading about Kevin Pietersen, the England cricketer, getting out for 97. He was out playing a typically KPish type shot. KP, please stay true to yourself and keep playing the way you play. Ignore the ill-informed, myopic commentators who believe [...]
We’ve just finished the 2 day kick off to the athlete at work® programme and really enjoyed some interesting conversations around performance in these testing times. One of the most interesting discussions was around the perceived pressure to get more done in less time. Wouldn’t we all like that? So, when we talked about being [...]
If the kind of objective feedback that you’re used to has gone awol, it can be pretty difficult to judge yourself in the way that you’re used to. This is a bit like when the sports people we work with have to perform in very different weather conditions - the way they or the equipment [...]
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 [...]
We’d highly recommend visiting www.badscience.net to help you debunk a lot of the nonsense that gets published about what might or might not be good for you. It’s clear from a lot of the trash newspaper articles that Ben Goldacre takes to task, that the common theme stems from lazy journalists or out and out [...]
While everyone indulges in the annual madness of new year’s resolutions and seeing who can break them most quickly, why not go down a different path? Rather than trying to think of a grandiose plan for the whole of 2009, why not focus on what your optimum start for 2009 looks like?We’d certainly not discourage [...]
In this video we see Prof Richard Wiseman (of “The Luck Factor” and “Quirkology“) demonstrating that firewalking is a load of old tosh. Most enjoyable, as although we believe in the power of the mind sometimes it can be taken a bit too far! Fine line, genius and insanity!
It got me thinking about the power [...]