Golf and Business: Golfer Go Ahead
Golf Swing Right Now
Golf isn't merely a leisure sport. It's the martini lunch of the modern workforce, the buoyant venue where business gets done. Golf is great for business; well it can be if you’re up with the pack, in the action. Get yourself stuck in the rough or way out of left field and you’ll find it’s probably not too helpful for business at all. Golfers must constantly contend with two pernicious, false and yet widespread beliefs. First, that golf is boring. Second, those businesspeople that play it are all weasels that plot fraudulent deals between shots. Now not all golfers are businessmen, but many business executives participate in the game. The decision makers usually play this game. It’s refreshing game, takes your mind off the four corners of the office, triggers new thoughts and creates a favorable place to make business deals. A good round of golf creates a comradery that’s hard to replicate in the confines of an office. Stories are shared, success’s and not so success’s, family, friends and contacts. Compared with maybe a one hour meeting in your office, you now have four hours to discover likes and intense aversions, creating an opening for future business decisions and meetings to be instilled with the flavor of ‘likes’ learned and avoiding blunders, steering well clear of ‘dislikes’. Also great opportunity to find out what drives your fellow player, find his or her purpose for the time and effort they put into business. Knowing a individual’s ‘why’ is an immensely powerful tool, not to be exploited but transformed, enlightening an associate to how you’re able to assist in achieving that goal.