While the rest of us are chasing victory, the best in the world know they must avoid losing before they can win. It turns out this is a surprisingly effective strategy.
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When an organizational bias for action drives doing, often thinking falls by the wayside.
With the mind-numbing pace of change that seems to be all around us, it is also worthwhile to consider what is highly unlikely to change as you consider your strategy.
How someone can see what others have not, or what they have ignored, and thereby discover a pivotal objective and create an advantage, lies at the very edge of our understanding, something glimpsed only out of the corner of our minds. Not every good strategy draws on this kind of insight, but those that do generate the extra kick that separates “ordinary excellence” from the extraordinary.
Even when we get the big decisions directionally right, we’re not guaranteed to get the results we want.
We don’t think of ordinary moments as decisions. No one taps us on the shoulder as we react to a comment by a coworker to tell us that we’re about to pour gasoline or water onto this flame.
This was inspired by this Bill Walsh quote: “Champions behave like champions before they’re champions. They have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.