Two similar articles caught my eye yesterday. Both Jeff Angus’s piece at Baseball Analysts and a story at Lindy’s Sports discuss lessons learned on the baseball field that are applicable to many other fields in life. I can easily imagine much of this language coming from Stephen Covey or Mel Levine.
From Jeff Angus’ experience at baseball summer camp:
- What you value personally may not have any value in the environment you’re in.
- We all have weaknesses and sometimes the best way to attack one is to try to turn it into a strength.
- Coaching, teaching and managing are not either/or, good or bad, they are additive.
- Rock, paper, scissors. Everything good can be beaten by something better. Everything not good can beat something great.
- Never staple your lips together with a heavy-duty Bostitch stapler.
My top five from Lindy’s reasons for Oakland’s organizational success:
- Identify your boundaries.
- Build a braintrust.
- Have a philosophy and stick to it.
- Act with resolution.
- Study the stats.
Both authors explain each point quite well and I highly recommend checking out both articles.
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Sky is a baseball fan and racket sport afficianado living in upstate NY. His favorite color is orange and is just about ready to give up on his life-long dream to become the next Magnus ver Magnuson (World's Strongest Man). His favorite baseball teams are the Yankees and Red Sox, proving that there's hope in the Middle East.