3 Lessons From the Golf Course - US News
Newly Corporate was recently invited to join the US News and World Report Career Blog Network “Outside Voices“. Each of the authors here at Newly Corporate post on the blog in a rotating schedule, one post total each week.
My golf buddy and I play a weekly nine holes. This week the weather was irritable to say the least. The parking lot was cold, the first fairway warm, the fourth tee rainy, and at the fifth tee it hailed.
Needless to say, I played one of my worst rounds in a long time. But, it got me to thinking about the business lessons that can be learned on the golf course.
Conditions change, and there is nothing you can do about it: Just like weather changes on the golf course, the environment in which we conduct our business changes. These things happen—you can’t just quit because it’s raining (or hailing). My only par yesterday was after the rain passed. If I had given up, that would never have happened.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 11:17 am
Brandon,
Solid points and good work showing how the advice crosses over into work and personal situations.