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I often refer to the need for effective development, something that is now taken for granted by any chess player beyond the rank of novice. But it took the first great American sports hero to demonstrate the importance of this fundamental concept to the world. His lesson, that you should have a solid and well-developed position before going on the
... See moreGarry Kasparov • How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
With the old masters, my goal was to do what they did. When I began “imagining” the moves of those two basketball players I so greatly admired on that early pre-college tour I took to Canada, my goal was never to reproduce what they did—but to counter their moves.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
The successes with talent transfer attest to the fact that a nation succeeds in a sport not only by having many athletes who practice prodigiously at sport-specific skills, but also by getting the best all-around athletes into the right sports in the first place.
David Epstein • The Sports Gene
many practice groups continue to maintain expertise-based approaches to running their affairs when their marketplace is probably closer to the efficiency stage.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
THE RIGHT KIND OF AMBITION: THE BILL CAMPBELL ATTRIBUTE