Borrowing discipline from the pros

I keep coming back to sports. Not the highlight reels. The infrastructure behind them. Few organizations chase performance with the discipline you find in professional sports. The planning, role clarity, and sheer demand for week-over-week improvement are on a...

Testing the ceiling

Eliud Kipchoge didn’t perform an inhuman feat. He ran the same distance everyone else runs, at a pace people called impossible, wearing shoes designed for exactly this. Nothing about the human body changed on October 12, 2019. What changed was the number in...

What practice buys

We call it discipline and mean it as a compliment, then privately resent what it costs us. Every morning the pages get written before the excuses do. Every morning the resistance shows up first, disguised as something more urgent. Steven Pressfield gave that...

What fantasy football has taught me

I love Fantasy Premier League. Genuinely. It engages me, frustrates me, and gives me real joy in ways that surprise people who don’t play. Part of it is the strategy. Part of it is the constraints: a fixed budget, a limited number of moves, rules that...

What the scoreboard replaces

I sat with a client last month who swore her team hated their scoreboard. “It feels like the Panopticon,” she said. I asked her one question: “Who updates it?” “They do. Nobody makes them.” Bentham’s prison worked because you...