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apolitical
silos
So does success create team spirit or does team spirit lead to success?
won the US Open in 1990, at the age of nineteen. When he lost the title in the following year, he said at a press conference, ‘It kind of takes the monkey off my back a bit.’ There
threadbare
If you are a challenger you make news when you win, if you are a winner, it’s news when you lose!
wary
puffed
lax
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If winning was analysed as much as failure is, perhaps teams would stumble onto new insights, maybe they could establish an activity pattern that they could repeat at a later date.
Success has to be repeatable because that is what makes you a champion.
Flair
grit
‘Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.’
To return to the burden of winning. Once you have been labelled a winner you are expected to perform like a champion every single time. Often, not all successful people can handle the pressure that comes with these raised expectations. Since it is impossible to perform at peak when under great pressure, it’s possible for people to crumble and fall apart.
eventually
wither
dissected
daunting
arduous,
complacent
That is why managing success is always more difficult than achieving it and staying number one is more difficult than becoming number one.
Dr. Santrupt Mishra of the Aditya Birla Group who is from a rare species of HR leaders who became business leaders says, ‘Leadership’s role is empowering and encouraging people and tolerance of failure. Whenever you encourage people to keep that hunger alive, that hunger will manifest itself in many ways and in the pursuit of that hunger some would fail. How you react to that failure decides if you can keep that hunger alive or you kill the hunger.’
‘Success is a lousy teacher, it seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
Success becomes a blanket that covers up weaknesses.
Those who rigidly hold on to a winning formula
osmosis
It’s a good idea to revisit what worked for you, evaluate what still works and then, discard the rest.
As Sandy Gordon, Australian sports psychologist who has had many successful sessions with cricketers and teams says, ‘Like all athletes, and coaches as well, we only tend to analyse failure. What I did (with the Australian team) was oblige people to analyse success a bit more—why did you play well today? Why did you get a hundred? Why did you get a five-for? … and getting people to reflect. Very often there is a pattern of behaviour, a pattern of thinking, a pattern of emotions which many are unaware of.’ It is something that all of us would do well to contemplate!
accolades
‘suave,’
vein.
He says, ‘Most sportsmen initially play for the sheer joy of playing. Somewhere along the line, some of them start playing to the gallery. That’s when things go downhill. Once you start playing for what you think society wants from you, you get sucked into the sins of pride and arrogance.’
complacency.
•Inexperience in dealing with sudden success. •Chronic feelings of under-appreciation. •Paranoia over being cheated out of one’s rightful share. •Resentment against the competence of partners.
•Personal effort mustered solely to outshine a team mate. •A leadership vacuum resulting from the formation of cliques and rivalries. •Feelings of frustration even when the team performs successfully.
enviable
‘chronic
paranoia.
Sundar Pichai
we must surround ourselves with people better than us.
‘Never be secure. People better than you will push you to do...
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plateau
•Success must be analysed with the same rigour as failure. •Success is in the context of time, space and scale. •Keep what still works and discard the rest. •Managing success is as difficult as achieving it. •Winning comes with side-effects: ego, over-confidence, complacency. •The Disease of Me can lead to The Defeat of Us. •Chronic winners need to guard against satisfactory underperformance. •Adversity separates champions from challengers.
wounded
vanquished
In India, people are very afraid of failing. In the US, people fail and move on. Here, you try to find ten reasons why you failed, everything except ‘you’. In the US, failure is like a badge of honour. Oh, you have been to the war, you have been shot, you must have been a good soldier! India has to develop that culture.
flock
