The ability to improvise is a recurrent time in inspiration sporting stories, such as the career of pitcher Jim Abbott, who had a successful baseball career despite being born without a right hand. Managers should see in Abbott’s story the potential for achievement that can be unlocked only with ingenuity and a willingness to get the most out of the resources one is given.
Individual sports like tennis contain management lessons, too. Rafael Nadal’s career was threatened by a foot deformity when he was just nineteen, but he decided to wear shoes with special orthotics and play on, at the cost of additional strain on his knees. This case teaches us the importance of compromise. Managers must realize that sometimes you have to make a trade-off or fall to the ground when you have barely started.
- Parth Govil
2014-16 Batch,
XLRI Jamshedpur
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