BITESIZE #80 | Sir Clive Woodward: The Similarities Between Sport and Business
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Bitesize, we’re returning to episode 28 with Sir Clive Woodward. The head coach who led England’s rugby players to World Cup glory in Australia in 2003.
Clive discusses the similarities between sport and business, how he approaches running a small business, why personal relationships are so crucial and much more.
Jake takes us through an in depth look at Clive’s answers, offering some inspiring and thoughtful insight.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, welcome along to another bite-size episode of the High Performance Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | For those of you who can't spare an hour or an hour and a half to listen to some of our guests |
| 0:08.1 | every week, this is where we revisit an old episode. We take out one point or one comment and we |
| 0:13.0 | just talk about it for a couple of minutes. Today we're focusing on Episode 28 of the High Performance |
| 0:19.0 | Podcast, Sir Clive Woodward, comparing sport and business. Now, before we get going, just a quick |
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| 1:02.1 | Sir Clive Woodward, on the similarities between sport and business. |
| 1:08.8 | You know, I think coaching a rugby team is a business and I was very clear about that with the |
| 1:12.3 | players that, like a business, you hear they deliver results through people and you think about it, |
| 1:16.5 | that's what business about what sports about. So I was there to deliver results through people. |
| 1:20.7 | I think what I learned to do with my small company very much so was to kind of listen to the team, |
| 1:27.2 | you know, when you're a small business, you listen to everybody and I pride myself in a good |
| 1:31.4 | good listener. I almost pride myself at not being good at new ideas, but when I hear a good idea, |
| 1:37.2 | wherever it comes from, what I think I am quite good at is making that happen. If I think that in |
| 1:42.0 | a sporting term is going to make the boat go faster, we're going to do it. So to a full, I want |
| 1:46.1 | everyone in the room engaged and some of the players were very enthused about this, some of them |
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