Australia Wins #1 in Olympics with Unique Calculation Model

With the Olympics over (as well as our winter baseball season), I thought it would be worth sharing some interesting winning numbers from the games.

1. 329 events were hosted in Paris, and 5,084 medals were given out.
2. Which country won the Olympics? According to an astrophysicist and strategy guru from America…. Australia won the big title. The Duncan-Parece model, developed by Texan astrophysicist Robert Duncan and Bostonian strategy consultant Andrew Parece, uses several calculations outlining how many medals a country should win based on population.? “The way I describe it is how many medals you expected the country to win if the only thing you knew about the country was its population?” Parece says. Well done Aussie, you go you go thing!
3. 20 world records were broken, making 20 people #1 at what they do.
4. On a smaller scale of the sports world, our U17 baseball team won their premiership. The grand final was made up of the teams that finished 3rd and 4th respectively during the regular season. Although we weren't #1 all season, the crew pulled together to take the #1 title when it counted most.

In sport, it’s easy to tell who is the best. You win the race. You score more runs than the other team. The judges give you more points than others. Or an astrophysicist tells you so.

How do we measure #1 at work?

Sales teams seem to have it easy - they can measure who sells the most.

What about leadership teams - how can they tell if they are the best? Does hitting targets make them the best? Exceeding goals make them the best?

I’m not sure you can measure being the best in some contexts.

Can you be #1 at trust?

Can you be the best at creating connections that matter?

Can you unarguably be the best at giving feedback?

What about being #1 at emotional intelligence? Or #1 for collaboration?

What about team dynamics - can you or your team be the best at that?

I don’t think you can because these games don’t have an end, and whether you win or not is subjective.

So being #1 or the best at these may not be a good goal to have. Getting better at these will work better. You can aim to improve, evolve and even transform. At the individual and team level.

So, when considering what you want to be the best at and what your team wants to be the best at, consider where the most significant improvements will make the biggest difference. If you focus on the right things to improve on continuously, you’ll start to shine or shine even brighter.

Cheers

Adrian