Want Higher Performers? Change Your Organization.

Why optimizing the environment is the key to getting the most out of yourself and others

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Feb 13, 2022

Professional sport romanticizes individual achievement. In sport and business, we believe just one person can take us from the bottom to the top, assuming they have the right makeup.

We are preoccupied with talent, individual awards, and internal characteristics that the greats possess that separate the best from the rest. As a result, we:

Ascribe outcomes to people instead of teams

Downplay the role of the performance environment in facilitating elite performers

Yet, the research on elite athletes has tried to tell us: organizational influences are the #1 factor facilitating or debilitating peak performance

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