Environment Matters: Shaping Success in Work and Football
The footballer comes from a good team abroad. At first, in training and matches, he shows his quality, his skills, and his vision to the people around him, the spectators, the coach, and his teammates. But in the long run, things start to change. Because the football team is made up of 11 people, even if his performance alone helps his team win maybe 1, 2, or 3 times, it’s not enough in the long run (in the marathon: the league or cup) he is fighting for. Why is this so?
Even if the player is a star or a good player, if the team is doing badly, if they are constantly losing points, if they are not playing good football, then after a while they approach the average performance of the team. He is becoming ordinary, just trying to keep up with the average. Then his quality is questioned, he is called a mediocre player. However, what happens is that he just adapts to his environment.
If we have such inefficient systems and mediocre people in our real lives, in the places where we work, how far can we go? After a while, if you don’t get any nourishment from your environment, you will be inadequate and you will fall even further behind. Because there are days that go by without learning.
In an environment where there are well-equipped people who love to share, in a non-toxic, competitive structure, people question themselves, learn from their environment, and try not to fall behind. This results in success, improvement, and development in the long run. If the system is good, you gradually start to look good, you become someone who solves certain problems, and contributes.
We have seen examples of this many times when an average football player transfers to a team with a good system (such as Brighton, FC Midtjylland). Brighton are signing a player from a very obscure football league. A few years pass, the player shows incredible development and probably signs a very profitable transfer.
Some players like Marcelinho, Großkreutz etc. previously performed well in top-level teams, contributed, and played for a long time, but they performed very poorly in the new team they joined in the Super League. We see this opposite situation in at least one team in a season.
In summary, I tried to make a compilation of the “environment” similarities between football and business life and the adaptation of humans to this environment. I hope I was able to convey my thoughts and lead you to question the environment we are in.
