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Book Report: Deep Thinking
Tagged with: AlphaGo, Amos Tversky, artificial intelligence, automation, Bill Gates, Bounce, chess, competition, Dan Ariely, Daniel Kahneman, Data and Goliath, Deep Thinking, Der Speigel, disruption, expertise, Garry Kasparov, innovation, Larry Smith, Larry Tesler, machine learning, Mikhail Botvinnik, Moravec's Paradox, performance, philosophy, pragmatism, privacy, problem solving, Success and Luck, technology, The Pentagon's Brain, Vasily Smyslov, Weapons of Math Destruction, Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
What makes an excellent performer?
Over the last few weeks, I’ve gotten together with a number of friends and former colleagues to chat, catch up, and talk shop. Because of the time of year (performance evaluation season!) and other developments (my team is expanding, so…
Tagged with: achievement, excellence, performance, top performers
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Management
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Management
Shining a Light on Performance
“While low performers squirm under bright light, high performers usually shine brightest.” – Bruce Tulgan in Not Everyone Gets a Trophy Chapter eight of Not Everyone Gets a Trophy addresses performance management of Generation Y, and offers a number of tactics…
Tagged with: Bruce Tulgan, Not Everyone Gets a Trophy, performance, spotlight
Posted in Books, Careers, Management
Posted in Books, Careers, Management
Getting out of your own way
“We all have self-defeating thoughts and behaviors that undermine performance. I call them gremlins, the little invisible creatures that prevent athletes from performing at their best.” – Sports psychologist Gary Mack (Mind Gym – p42) Shortly after the chapter Know…
Tagged with: 30 for 30, anger, anxiety, Arthur Ashe, distractions, fear, fear of failure, Gary Mack, gremlins, Mind Gym, motivation, perfectionism, performance, persistence, self-consciousness, self-sabotage, stubbornness
Posted in Books, Careers, Everything, Leadership, Sports
Posted in Books, Careers, Everything, Leadership, Sports
Applying sports psychology: fun with penalty kicks
In addition to leadership and marketing literature, I devote a fair bit of time to reading about peak performance and the psychology of decision-making. Readers of this site know that I’m also a big fan and avid player of soccer.…
Tagged with: Andrew Anthony, Bounce, hydrocut, Mind Gym, performance, PKs, shoot-outs, Sian Beilock, sports psychology, sports science, Sweet Street, The Sports Gene, Tim Krul, visualization
Posted in Biking, Math and Science, Sports
Posted in Biking, Math and Science, Sports
Book Report: The Sports Gene
“The broad truth is that nature and nurture are so interlaced in any realm of athletic performance that the answer is always: it’s both. But that is not a satisfactory endpoint in science. Scientists must ask, ‘How, specifically, might nature…
Tagged with: Aaron Lennon, Charles Darwen, Chris Rock, Chrissie Wellington, David Epstein, Donald Dhomas, epigenetics, expertise, Gareth Bale, Jennie Finch, Jermain Defoe, Jesper L Andersen, Jose Reyes, Kalenjin, Paavo Nurmi, performance, Sian Beilock, sports science, The Sports Gene, Theo Walcott, Usain Bolt
Posted in Books, Math and Science, Sports
Posted in Books, Math and Science, Sports
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