Execellence » Communication http://www.change-directors.com the resource for Change Directors Fri, 28 May 2010 13:02:59 +0000 en hourly 1 1,2,3,4,5,6….20? http://www.change-directors.com/execellence/123456-20/ http://www.change-directors.com/execellence/123456-20/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:59:48 +0000 Doug Shaw http://www.change-directors.com/?p=61 A couple of days ago I posted about how Olympic gold medal winning cyclist Chris Boardman encouraged us to think differently, and I left you with a question. How many ‘f’s are there in the following sentence?

FF1

I got a few replies. Some people saw four, others six.

FF2I thought there were six too, how clever I felt….for a few seconds.

FF3

As you can see, there are in fact 20 ‘f’s. 14 of them are hidden behind the ‘e’s. It wasn’t Boardman who spotted this, it was a colleague of his. Someone who up to that point had featured very little in Boardman’s thinking. At a stroke, this example of seeing and thinking differently changed Boardman’s perpective. He was beginning the journey from solo selfish focussed sporting superstar, to a visionary, exciting team leader. And we all know the powerful effect that team had at the Beijing Olympics.

Ok so this was a fun look at a serious business. Next time I’ll get stuck into some more different thinking and some essentials for high performing teams. Have a great weekend and thanks for playing.

Doug Shaw

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