Two games to go in football's English Premier League and whatever you think of professional football (from elite athletic performance in action to celebrity circus and soap opera) it’s a melting pot of highly visible competitiveness, relentless weekly demands and potential pressure. Every season there are managerial sackings but this…

This short HBR blog post might help. It's a simple little read and a useful reminder about the motivational and performance benefits of having a purpose and a goal. If you want great team performance then a sense of purpose is essential (see Rule 13) but as well as purpose you…

You can spend a fortune on clunky engagement surveys and get minimal results or you can use the approach taken by high performance teams and organisations from the world of elite sport. If you want to get real human performance impact, talk to us about the K2 High Performance Culture Audit.…

Andy Murray, the end of the tax year and Geoff Rawlings Andy Murray is down to 8th in the men’s tennis world rankings, many people are coming to the end of their business financial year and Geoff Rawlings has had a “nightmare” month. What links these three things? (more…)

There's clearly lots to learn from great performers in any field and in this article about the Irish rugby union player Brian O'Driscoll there are lots of observation by his current and former team mates about what makes him so good. (more…)

In case you didn’t know, the winter Paralympic Games starts today in Sochi. The Opening Ceremony tonight marks the start of a 10 day period of competition, and for the athletes competing, a seminal moment in their sporting careers, and their lives. For the 12 strong Paralympics GB team, the…

As we all know, in the world of elite performance results are everything. Performers are highly focused on winning and are usually very, very competitive in trying to achieve their goals. But to be successful they recognise they need to be fantastic at understanding and knowing how to win. While…

We've had the first few online reviews come in for our recently published new book, Perform. Rather than leave them unappreciated by anyone other than us on the Amazon website here we thought we'd share them with you on this blog. If you're interested in buying a paperback, for £10,…