Practice makes perfect!

Olympic Games is a about planning. Actuallly 7 years of planning. At least. It takes thousands of days to plan this mega event.

But Olympic Games is also about training. It is about testing your plans and procedures and training your workforce in order to achieve perfect performing.

As a manager and leader you need to know which decisions to make, what to communicate, who to report incidents to, how to motivate. Because what do you do.....
....when there is a traffic jam and your venue is only half full just prior to start?
....when there is a problem with the ice and the jury decides to delay the competition?
....when your staff is food poisoned?
....when you have loss of power and your whole venue is dark?

Yesterday I experienced how 100 Russian managers did this; cooperating, communicating, solving issues, having fun. Because training on reality with your colleagues is fun, and provides energy and motivation for the continous planning.

Something for all of us to learn - I learned a lot from the 100 professional Russian leaders I met yesterday!