As I drove across town yesterday, I passed a large municipal park that has more than 25 soccer fields and thought about how my granddaughters played in youth leagues starting when they were 3 years old. I use the term ‘play’ here rather loosely because they seemed to learn more about participating in a group activity than playing the actual game. When I was growing up, we mostly played baseball and football, but today’s kids can get involved in a growing array of organized sporting activities that create opportunities to interact with others in an organized way, discover the concepts of rules and achieving goals, and learn to ‘play a ball where it lies’. These sport’s ideas are similar in many ways to how one approaches life and learns to take the good and the bad with equal grace. These models and concepts are used in the workplace as companies promote teamwork, goal setting, and fair play. Try applying some appropriate sport’s metaphors and practices at your workplace today.
Henry Grantland Rice (1880 – 1954): Early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose
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