Filling your company with Athletes: The race to success

by khaledamin

The Forbes article considered in this blog post suggests that businesses should start employing athletes. Athletes, you ask?… Yes, Athletes.

The 6 athletic attributes:

  1. They never give up
  2. They achieve their goals
  3. They develop new skills
  4. They are exceptional entrepreneurs
  5. They strive for balance
  6. They work well with partners and teams

The reason why this refers to the term “Athletes” is because it is in the nature of sport athletes whom participate in physically challenging activities such as track, football or swimming. By hiring employees that seek health, fitness, and achievement in the business sense, an organization can as a whole become a young, youthful and strong force that synergies to achieve the best. The 6 straits listed above all make a “business athlete”, an employee that puts in 100% of his effort to complete tasks, one that sets goals and achieves them, develops new skills and widens his scope of ability, is open minded and looks through the bigger picture, ensures balance, and is a team player. However, the question is, how DO we find these “athletes”? Are there such employees that would every commit to the business as if it were their family? It may be a suggestion that businesses should start searching for quality instead of quantity, where quantity refers to solely one’s academic achievements.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkwilliams/2013/10/02/why-you-should-fill-your-company-with-athletes/