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The Next Play - How to navigate the future

Jun 30, 2019
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How often do we find ourselves overthinking our last mistake or spending too much time re-living a recent success?

Neither of these are healthy.

What then is the best way to move forward?

Team USA and Duke University’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski recently shared his views on this, in what he called ‘the next play’ - providing a great answer to this question.

It’s one that he has practiced since the early ‘80s along the sidelines of the basketball court - calling out to his mantra to his players.

He has since explained how by focusing on the ‘next play’ he managed to maintain balance and effectively pursue the future.

It’s something that has impacted my life and my decision making and a topic worth exploring further.

LEARNING FROM OUR DECISIONS

Life can be interpreted as a series of success and failures.

Learning from those experiences and, in particular, our decision-making ability is important.

One of the best ways to do this, as the late management guru Peter Drucker instructed, is …

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