# The Making of a Corporate Athlete

<https://hbr.org/2001/01/the-making-of-a-corporate-athlete>

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## What Jamie wrote

Very good article highlighting the importance of focusing on your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual capacities to be a successful leader. There are similar concepts here the book I read recently [The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_Engagement). I've also talked about this by saying we have to remember we are not a "brain on a stick".

> Our approach has its roots in the two decades that Jim Loehr and his colleagues at LGE spent working with world-class athletes. Several years ago, the two of us began to develop a more comprehensive version of these techniques for executives facing unprecedented demands in the workplace. In effect, we realized, these executives are "corporate athletes." If they were to perform at high levels over the long haul, we posited, they would have to train in the same systematic, multilevel way that world-class athletes do. We have now tested our model on thousands of executives. Their dramatically improved work performance and their enhanced health and happiness confirm our initial hypothesis.

Admittedly this is not something I've done well. I think I've made some great progress in the other aspects, but the foundational physical work has not had enough (any?) investment for years. Thanks to [Hector Fernandez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hectorefernandez/) for the link! I’m seriously considering a visit to the [Human Performance Institute](https://www.humanperformanceinstitute.com) to dive deep into this.

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- [WT134: Weekly Thing #134 / Platform & Product, Corporate Athlete, Mindfulness](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/134/), Must Read

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