I went to a corporate culture seminar yesterday. The presenter was a big man, a former rugby union prop forward and self-confessedly still fascinated by his marvellous sport.
There were great lessons to be learned by business leaders and managers in team building from England’s famous victory in the 2004 Rugby World Cup, he opined.
But what are they? The Powerpoint slides revolved around core themes of willpower, self-sacrifice and the supreme ecstasy of smashing your opposition being the keys to developing and leading higher performing teams of staff. “Teams” were used in the wider sense of organisational wide corporate culture.
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