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Article: PAR FOR THE COURSE THE GAME OF GOLF CAN ILLUSTRATE VALUABLE BUSINESS PRINCIPLES.(Business)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2005
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Byline: T.C. North
As a sports psychology consultant who works with a number of corporate CEOs as well as high-caliber athletes, I have always been fascinated with the game of golf as a metaphor for business and a business-generating and relationship-building phenomenon.
My interest was set in concrete a number of years ago when an important CEO client, whom I had golfed with several times, invited me to go over the leadership evaluation I had carried out for him. The situation was sticky to say the least. The CEO was an old-school "command-and-control" leader who asked me to help him change his company's management system to one where decisions were ...