The Winning Way Quotes

“A young man like Michael Clarke, sharing the dressing room with the likes of Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Ricky Ponting, Mathew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist would have learnt how to win and how to close matches, as part of his grooming in international cricket.”
― Anita Bhogle and Harsha Bhogle, The Winning Way 2.0Learnings from Sport for Managers

“tailwinds”
― Anita Bhogle, The Winning Way

“have found that bringing together a great team that’s united by strong motivation, determination and bravery is much more important.”
― Anita Bhogle, The Winning Way

“Success becomes a blanket that covers up weaknesses. You don’t see them growing until one fine day, the blanket is ripped off to reveal reality.”
― Anita Bhogle, The Winning Way

“In Hyderabad there is a popular saying, oopar sherwani, andar pareshani. In other words, the finery outside conceals the penury within.”
― Anita Bhogle, The Winning Way

“When companies start becoming completely goal-centric and forget that it is people who produce results, they struggle.”
― Anita Bhogle, The Winning Way

“An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. —Emil Zatopek”
― Anita Bhogle, The Winning Way

“Winning today is about finding the balance between being encouraging and being ruthless.”
― Anita Bhogle, The Winning Way

“achievable.”
― Anita Bhogle, The Winning Way

“when India were set 360 to win the World Cup in 2003 against an outstanding Australian team that seemed to add a further 30 runs to the total by the way they caught, fielded and bowled. The dressing room in the break couldn’t have been the happiest place to be in. Until Sachin asked a simple question of them: ‘Can we score one boundary an over?’ It’s not easy but neither is it impossible. When he heard a few players say yes, he asked what the target would then reduce to… a boundary an over means 50 balls produce 200 runs and the objective shrinks to 160 from 250 balls. Very achievable.”
― Anita Bhogle, The Winning Way

“If you have grown up in a family with few means at its disposal, you will still eat the last corner slice of bread or vigorously shake the bottle of ketchup to extract the last drop even if you can easily afford another one. If you are a family-driven company, you cannot suddenly become a professionally-managed company, as Kumaramangalam Birla discovered when, as a young man, he took over the companies his charismatic father Aditya Birla had managed.”
― Anita Bhogle, The Winning Way

“What you achieve is a function of what you think you can.’1”
― Anita Bhogle, The Winning Way

“organisations that do not reward those that set up goals will find there are no more goals to score!”
― Anita Bhogle, The Winning Way

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit’.You”
― Anita Bhogle, The Winning Way