Nobody gets a hit every time they step up to the plate. Sometimes you just plain strike out. What I’ve learned from watching people who strike out is this: If striking out teaches you something, then there is value in striking out — it’s the cost of the education. If you strike out, then immediately [...]
Hit and run is a big part of baseball. You can make giant strides against your opponent if you execute it properly. Of course the risk is, if not done well, you lose your advantage. It’s also important that there be an element of surprise. It’s not that your opponent doesn’t know you may be [...]
Have you ever noticed how inexperienced outfielders always take 2 - 3 steps in before running backwards and watching the fly ball soar over their heads? It’s hard-wired in us to move toward the target. But what we really should be doing is watching (and analyzing) where the target is going to be, not where [...]
When you’re standing on second base and a fly ball is hit, you don’t watch the ball. You watch the third base coach. He will tell you how far to go, how fast to go and whether to stop at third or keep going. This seems to be one of the most difficult lessons to [...]
Hitters hit in streaks. Sometimes the ball looks as big as a watermelon that’s moving at a snail’s pace and you’d have to be some kind of no-talent bum not to get hit. No. It’s a foregone conclusion. Not only are you going to hit it, you’re going to crush it. Other times the ball [...]
Things I Learned About Business From Coaching Baseball (part one)
13 May
Posted by awebb as Management
I coached American Legion baseball for many years and found it to be one of the best experiences of my life. Today I realize that much of what I know about business I really learned in baseball.
Here’s an example: The other day I talked to a man who was thinking about leaving a secure profession [...]
I just read an interesting article in AOPA Pilot magazine by Rod Machado (a flight instructor with 8,000 hours instructing others how to fly) in which he talks about the old aviation saying, “When disaster strikes, the first thing you should do is wind your watch.”
Of course, we don’t wear watches anymore that need winding. [...]
I remember talking to a manager in a company I was dealing with years ago whose first question to me was, “Who else is on the team?” After some discussion, it came out that his big concern was whether he would be the weak link in the chain. ”I don’t have to be the strongest [...]
Today started out bad and got steadily worse. I woke up at 5:30 a.m. (that’s right, a.m. in the middle of the night) feeling sick and couldn’t go back to sleep. Not a good way to start the day. Since we were leaving the mountain to do some errands in the valley, I checked outside. [...]
If you’re a doctor or an accountant, or some other professional, you know what continuing education is. It’s the additional education the licensing board requires you take each year to make sure you’re current in your field. In business we don’t have such a rule, although maybe we should.
It doesn’t take very long to become [...]
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