Winning and losing are often narrowly defined. Thinking about how you measure success is important, particularly in difficult situations. This weekend, the East Kilbride Pirates lost heavily but were there wins which didn't show up on the scoreboard? Read today's blog to find out! (link in the first comment)
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An interesting post Matt. I work with some US students who seek internships in Europe; often I find that those who are athletes bring competition, drive, performance, teamwork and discipline to all areas of their life. Much of what they gain from social and team sports is transferable skills and behaviours that support careers and personal aspirations outside of sport. In addition, doing something they love brings hope, resilience and joy and enables wellbeing.
Lately I've been thinking about how we measure "success" (OKRs being my starting point), and I'm very mindful of Goodhart's Law. Seems to me that any system for measuring success can be gamed, therefore, to measure success of a system you have to step outside the system. So in effect, its Godel's Incompleteness thorem, inside a system (say a individual match) you can measure success, and you can measuure the success of a team in the league, but to meausre whether the league is really succeeding, you need to step outside of it. Sorry to be confusing, my ideas are themselves incomplete at this point!
Matt Davies it was a good day and a good game the Alma guys seemed good guys, although NCAA div 3 is more about academics the football is still more ingrained in there culture with being played in high schools etc were as we still have to find our own way into the sport This is a totally none linkedin relevant comment , but you guys have amazing kicker , not many in UK can kick 45 yard's even some NCAA teams still don't have that :)
Always liked when we started playing the college teams. Nearly every time the coaching points we walked away with were far greater than the result on the game.
Sounds like a great learning and growth opportunity, and both teams and their fans can take a lot of value from it. It is a good reminder that there can be many different forms of value from an action or event.
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