Why are the Yankee-Red Sox games usually so exciting? What does this mean for your business.
It’s an interesting question that has direct relevance to any small business owner. The question being, why do professional athletes, play exceptionally well, better then most days, in certain predictable situations and what can we learn from this that will help our business achieve greater success?
Most every game between the Red Sox and the Yankees is exceptional. It is mostly because of the intensity and focus the players bring to that particular game.
What makes that happen? They are professionals paid incredibly well but they perform to their peak of their ability when they play each other above and beyond normal every day games…..sounds silly. Shouldn’t they play as well as they can every game? Why in this particular match up do both teams reach as high as they can possibly go and usually achieve greatness above and beyond normal expectations.
The answer is a combination of teamwork, leadership, and emotion.
Can it be done every day? Can this lesson be transferred to your business? Absolutely. This is not to say that every day can be a Red Sox- Yankee game for your business but the principles remain the same and the process is very important as the results are stunning.
Leadership. If the managers are leaders, and are involved in training, supporting, and working the men into an effective team with goals and the appropriate tools to perform the job, and if there is an incentive for them to succeed, a combination of personal accomplishment and reward. Increased productivity and greater quality are the results and it is available.
Team. A team that works together and supports one another, as that is a good definition of a good team, will pull together and accomplish far more then the sum of the individuals would produce if acting individually. If you have created a real team you can achieve greater results, as teams do better then individuals working towards the same goals.
Emotion. Caring, self accomplishment, passion, gratification, all are powerful emotions which if in play can propel any individual and team to greater heights all the time. This ingredient has to be developed and is part of a team effort, but it must start with management being good leaders.
Teamwork, leadership, emotion…..if all in place and operating well, it will yield a far superior result.
In short, your employees like the Yankees or Red Sox players are always capable of producing better results if properly motivated, if effectively lead and if part of a real team experience, they can reach higher levels of ‘play’ and do a better job producing better results every day..
Leadership, teamwork, and controlled and directed emotion, a desire to win and a reason to accomplish more. That’s the reason the Yankee-Red Sox games are so great, they both have excellent leadership, are working as a team striving to do better for themselves and each other and are emotionally driven to play as well as they can…it works.
It could be done in your business. Your employees could be playing as if they were in a Yankee-Red Sox game…or as an average day.
It’s your choice as one key ingredient is leadership, and that’s you. Develop the team, cultivate the will to win and ennjoy greater productivity and better quality.
