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Surprising gold medal rowing team teaches valuable leadership lesson

A musician and film producer-turned-entrepreneur coach and consultant breaks down leadership into an essential question: Will this task make you better?


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 8:00 a.m. January 20, 2023
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Orlando-area entrepreneur and leadership coach John King started a recent presentation in Sarasota with an unexpected tale: the story of the 2000 Sydney Olympics British rowing team. 

It had been 88 years since the Brits won gold when those Olympics were held down under. But, King says, the team’s leaders wanted to change that pattern. “The only problem,” King says, “is the team wasn’t very good.”  

The team soon landed on a leadership epiphany, with one integral formula. When making a decision, from uniform materials to practice times to who makes the squad, the team, King says, put every question through a singular prism: Will it make the boat faster? 

 


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Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon is the managing editor of the Business Observer. He has worked for the Business Observer since 2005. He previously worked for newspapers and magazines in upstate New York, suburban Philadelphia and Jacksonville.

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