#DaveBrailsford

[panicmonk]

Croquis, Bravo Brailsford!🤨 #croquis #teamsky @teamineos Ineos #teamineos #davebrailsford @davebrailsford #panicmonk https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw7RC9tFlbG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1452k11lo145z

[cyclingreporter]

Froomey zoomey.

[onpointbible]

教學人生：每一點都有幫助

“Every Little Helps” (每一點都有幫助)是英國最大的零售公司──特易購（TESCO）的口號。在英國，英國人每8英鎊的消費中，至少有1英鎊花在特易購的連鎖店。在超市領域，特易購排名在沃爾瑪和家樂福之後，是世界三大零售商之一，也是國際超市巨人。 “Every Little Helps”不僅僅是「每一點都有幫助」這一句口號，一點幫助就會產生很大不同。簡單的口號、簡單的觀念，那就是每天都多學習一點，多付出一點。多進步一點點，只要能藉著每天的小改變來造就未來的大改變，人生就能朝更好的方向前進；長期累積下來，就能締造非凡的成績，累積出成就。 自1908年以來，英國在奧林匹克運動會(簡稱：「奧運」)的單車項目金牌數目屈指可數；直至2003年，Dave…

[enisports-blog]

Tour de France 2017: Chris Froome may go on to win more titles after Tour de France win.

Tour de France 2017: Chris Froome may go on to win more titles after Tour de France win. ##ChrisFroome

For the fourth time, Chris Froome wins the yellow jersey.

 Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford believes the four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome will be a “force” in the race for years to come after sealing his fourth title and third in succession on Sunday’s final stage in Paris.

Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain have all got the five Tour titles and it…

[sksmedia]

RT @ldnsportingclub: Sir #DaveBrailsford CBE @BritishCycling coach and general manager of @TeamSky, will soon be joining us @Mansportingclub for #Breakfast on November 7th @manchester_hall: https://t.co/PgLJRsZON4 https://t.co/y57lO6E9kl

Sir #DaveBrailsford CBE @BritishCycling coach and general manager of @TeamSky, will soon be joining us @Mansportingclub for #Breakfast on November 7th @manchester_hall: https://t.co/PgLJRsZON4 pic.twitter.com/y57lO6E9kl

— London Sporting Club (@ldnsportingclub) October 22, 2018

from Twitter https://twitter.com/SKSMedia

[jeremywaite]

Success Comes in Small Gains, Not Explosive Successes

Many people in tech are looking for a golden egg. Some kind of silver bullet or revolutionary idea that will change the world and re-invent the game. While we are constantly surprised when something truly remarkable comes along, it doesn't happen very often.

Success for 99% of us, comes through hard work and doing a series of small things very well. Management consultants and sports coaches often call this "marginal gains". It is often this un-glamorous philosophy that is behind a successful enterprise, and not a revolutionary idea. 

"To multiply small successes is precisely to build one treasure after another. In time, one becomes rich without realising how it has come about" - Fredrick the Great (1712)

Michael Johnson, the 200m and 400m Olympic legend trained 10 years just to gain 0.5 seconds. But that huge amount of effort to improve by such a small amount, was the difference between him being a good college athlete and the superstar world record holder that he became. (His book "Slaying the Dragon' is a good read and explains this in a lot of detail).

5 time Olympic rowing champion Steven Redgrave had a gold medal winning career spanning over 20 years. There were a huge amount of advancements in technology, coaching techniques and nutrition during that time. And every time a new method or process for doing something was suggested, he had the same answer...

"Will it make the boat go faster?".

If it didn't they wouldn't do it. But if that new idea made even "a coat of paints worth of difference" time-wise, them they would embrace it 100%. (More is written in this book of the same name).

As a big cycling fan you can see exactly the same approach used by Dave Brailsford, manager of the British Sky cycling team. He used a series of very tiny improvements to win the Tour de France with Brad Wiggins in 2012, and in turn created the most successful teams on the pro-cycling tour. He called his process a series of "incremental returns". Lots of tiny improvements. To the clothing, to the bike, to nutrition, to preparation, to travel planning....

So when you are looking at your own business or idea, remember that even though you would like a game changer, it rarely exists in just one area. Focus on what you are good at.

"Businesses grow and keep a competitive edge because they just get better at what they are already good at".

It's very hard to make one giant leap forward. If that's all you are looking for, remember that there is a chance you will look back in a few years and realise that the accumulation of all those tiny improvements which your competitor made, might now be the reason why you are chasing them.