At the end of the recent Iowa / UConn women’s basketball game a questionable call impacted the game. During the post-game press conference a star UConn player made the point, however, that you don’t lose a game because of a single call.
Seth Godwin made a similar point recently when he wrote in his blog, “When the deal falls apart, or the team loses the game, or a partnership hits the rocks, it’s easy to focus our energy on what just happened. ‘What if they had called a different play?’ This overlooks the real issue. It’s the first move, or the fifth, that led to this problem, not what happened at the last moment.”
Leadership is recognizing both success and failure are a result of a sequence of decisions and events that are interconnected. While we remember the last play of the game, the game in many ways was decided long before the outcome.
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