When you were at school did you dread those moments of team selection for an afternoon of sport? The time when two gifted players had been singled out by the teacher, told to pick a team, and then given alternative choices to pick from the huddle in front of them. As...
On Tuesday September 13th I had the opportunity to queue with thousands of others in bright autumn sunshine in Edinburgh to pay my respects to our late Queen Elizabeth II. The queue moved quickly, was well managed, multi-cultural and good natured. The atmosphere...
Some of the conflicting and difficult to reconcile statements made in the recent Tory Party leadership contest, reminded me of a tragic incident some years ago in the USA. The pilot of a fast combat jet on a training mission at low level pulled the controls for a...
Vince Lombardi, the great American sports coach once wrote: “Hi, the guy at the top of the mountain didn’t just land there!”. To those who have done any hill walking or mountaineering this statement is one of the blindingly obvious! The mountain top is only...
We often mistake a group for a team. What is the difference? What makes an effective winning team is that the members will work selflessly for each other and for the team’s objectives. A team like this can consistently out perform what is in effect simply a group of...
It was Lou Holtz, an American Football coach, who said that ‘It is not the load that breaks you down, it is the way that you carry it.’ Looked at from the right perspective this statement is an encouragement and not some kind of grim warning! What Holtz’s comment...
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