Winning at Halftime

Today a guest post from Bruce Peters of Beyond Teal, who is based in upstate New York. His post is on leadership lessons from elite sports, a recurring theme on this site. Thank you to Bruce for allowing me to share this with you here.

Bruce is a remarkable human being that I’ve had the absolute pleasure and privilege to get to know over the last year. Our initial connection is around “Teal”, around the future of organisations. For more, go to the post: “Books I Love — Reinventing Organisations by Frederic Laloux”. Bruce is a warm, kind, generous man with an absolute wealth of knowledge in business and leadership, and full of energy and curiosity!

Winning at Halftime

If winning is your business goal, how can you help your team do it?

As you may know by now, I’m a sports fan, generally, and an avid follower of the Golden State Warriors (GSW), specifically. In case you didn’t follow the drama of the 2018 NBA Championships, GSW won. They play like no other team. Indeed, they actually play as a team, something their competition has yet to understand.

The origins of my attention on GSW goes back to me following them when they were based in Philadelphia near where I grew up. My continued and professional fascination with the team relates to how they play the game. I won’t bother you with the details of how they…