In this morning version of the Tom Peters Daily Quote, Tom wrote “Train! Train! Train! (Growing people outperform stagnant people in terms of attitude and output--by a wide margin.)”
When I read it I instantly thought of every Gold Medal Winner in the Olympics, every Super Bowl winning NFL team, and every World Series winner as great examples. They all trained and trained and trained and look where it got them: the top of the world. At that moment there are no others better than them, but rest assured someone is training to take their place.
But it is not all about sports, think about every Soldier, Sailor, Airman, and Marine that is serving or ever served. The government does not just put uniforms on people and then sends them off to fight a war. The military invests the resources into changing a civilian into a professional fighting person by training them. Training is what will save lives and accomplish the mission.
Everyone that works has had to train to get the job they have. No one ever walked up and got a job without knowing how to do the job. If they did, they didn’t last very long as their inability to do the job effectively was quickly realized. Besides, knowing what to do is the reason we went to school.
Every successful company trains. They train using simulations, long range forecasting, and they run readiness drills to ensure that things will go as planned and if not then as closed to planned as possible.
So what is the common denominator? Training.
Someone once said “Sweat more today and bleed less tomorrow”
This applies in the work place, the classroom, just as much as it applies on the battlefield.
Train! Train! Train!
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