Chasing Results

Rich Dixon is looking for the heart.

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I love baseball – one of my fondest teenage memories was a trip to see Mickey Mantle and my beloved Yankees in old Yankee Stadium.

Recently I listened as a manager analyzed a struggling player. “He’s too focused on results.”

Wait. He’s a big-league ballplayer, paid handsomely to perform. How can focusing on results be a bad thing?

Turns out, results-focused athletes take shortcuts and develop bad habits. They stop doing the things that m...