More Olympic lessons

An Olympic rower shares with HBR his lessons learned on handling stress, improving weaknesses and the values of teamwork.

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/how-an-olympic-gold-medalist-learned-to-perform-under-pressure/

Humility and generosity of spirit from an Olympic Champion

Alex Bilodeau made history by repeating his gold medal aerial performance on the moguls.  Then he modestly gave credit to his teammate and his brother as his inspiration to stay at the top of the world. 

Alex Bilodeau and fellow Quebecer Mikael Kingsbury, who won gold and silver in men's moguls on Monday.   

Hard to focus on work at the office while Canadians are making us proud with spectacular gold-medal performances at the Sochi Winter Olympics. 

Go CANADA go! 

Winter Olympics - Time to talk about Sochi 2014

The Winter Olympics are another great opportunity to learn more business lessons from sport.

Hard work, dedication, talent and perseverance get you to the medals and the gold in in your business too.

Check the champions who get all the attention, but don't forget anyone that makes an Olympic team is an outstanding example of what can happen if you apply talent and effort to realizing your dreams.  You can enjoy the spectacle of the highest forms of athletic performance, then absorb the lessons that you can apply to your own endeavors, business or otherwise.    

A Clinic in Confidence

Another lesson from the world of women's tennis.

A Clinic in Confidence from Genie Bouchard

Talent and charm help, but being confident in her ability led Eugenie Bouchard to the semi-finals at the Australian Open. 

And moved her up to 19th in world rankings.  

 

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Be confident. 

Charming Champion

Lin Na wins the Australian Open tennis championship and charms us all with her humility and sense of humour.

She had already demonstrated her awesome tennis.

See her speech on YouTube:
http://bit.ly/1lhD78p

Golf entrepreneurs

  

The PGA tour professional golfer is a great case study for any entrepreneur.

More than self-employed as a talented athlete, the successful pro golfer (one of the top 200 worldwide) has to manage and develop not only his talent, but also his marketing, administration, organisation and finances.


In other words, the perennial entrepreneurial challenge of providing both strategic leadership and operational excellence.

People make the difference

In business and in golf, it's the people that make it a good experience - whether you're a player or a spectator. (Having just enjoyed David Beckham's performance at the Olypic stadium in Montreal, I can add soccer to the list where good people make a difference.)


Playing partners that respect the rules and etiquette while still challenging you to achieve better results yourself, add a lot to the experience.

For spectators of the PGA Tour, we have learned to appreciate the skill, power and creativity of players like Rory McIlroy hitting a 3-wood 340 yards and bending it down the middle between the water and the trap; and Bubba Watson hooking it out from under a tree over the traps and stopping it on the green. 

Meanwhile Tiger has become a sideshow as the "bad boy" of golf. His golf has not been good enough to overcome the bad behaviour, on and off the course. 


We would wish him well if we were convinced he was sincerely trying to be a better man, not just trying to get back to being a great golfer.

 Until then, we would rather watch and play with the other gentleman golfers we know.


Posted June 2012