Learning from the Links: Mastering Management Using Lessons from Golf - Hardcover

Hurst OSB, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684865017 ISBN 13: 9780684865010

Publisher: Free Press, 2002

Synopsis

A leading consultant, speaker and strategist examines the parallels between business and golf, and explains how the same learning techniques can dramatically improve your skills in both. For the first time, a business manager and consultant has formally drawn the metaphor that anyone who has ever hit the links knows: that business is like a game of golf. In golf, a player can't just hit and hope - he or she must think ahead continuously, contemplate multiple scenarios and consider the downside of every decision. Yet, as every player also knows, there is a huge, largely unacknowledged difference between knowing what to do in a given situation and knowing how to do it. Both on the green and in the office, it is this constant obstacle which keeps people from achieving their goals and solving their problems. By examining golfer's and managers' struggle for improvement, David Hurst shows us why complex systems are so hard to change, and how to set about changing them, systematically. Using the latest thinking from fields and anthropology, Hurst's primary purpose is to help his readers coordinate their own experience, to help them learn more effectively.

About this title

About the Author

David K. Hurst is a speaker, consultant, and writer on management, with extensive experience both as an effective manager and educator. He has worked with numerous educational institutions. He is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Western Ontario's National Centre for Management Research and Development. Hurst was born in England but grew up in South Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Free Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684865017
• ISBN 13: 9780684865010
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320