What Pro Athletes Know About Your P&L

One of my favorite things is watching people who have deep expertise and translate it into another field.

I have a friend of mine who played professional sports. When he started, he always felt ashamed watching the game replays. He knew every little move would get criticized.

With time, he realized this was the pathway to him winning. He came to look forward to this. He know that corrections to even the smallest thing could make or throw the game.

But it wasn’t just watching the replays.

It was watching the stats. Knowing the numbers that measured his performance and his contribution to the win.

It’s a simple rule of game theory…
People play differently when there’s a score and when they’re being watched.

It doesn’t matter if you’re:
- the owner
- the bookkeeper
- the salesperson
- the production staff

It’s a probing question:

Where are you resisting the statistics for your business?

It’s also an invitation…

Will you lean into the discomfort so that you can play at the level you know you could?

Here’s to those always willing to learn to play a little better every day…