Remove Career Remove Schmitt Remove Taylorism
article thumbnail

Our Unhealthy Obsession with Winning

Harvard Business Review

You can't help but feel the heartbreak when an Olympic athlete falls just short of winning: Taylor Phinney missing a medal by inches in Olympic cycling; Allison Schmitt losing the gold medal by 3/10ths of a second in the 400 meter freestyle in swimming; four U.S. I missed more than 9000 shots in my career," says Michael Jordan. "26

Schmitt 16