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Of course, people trying to succeed both at work and at home are constantly thinking in terms of balance.

What strikes me most in the writing Loehr and Schwartz have done is their frequent use of the word “balance.” In particular, they see great athletes and corporate athletes achieving the right balance across three critical dimensions: Rather, they are coached in a holistic program designed to help them attain – and sustain- the highest performance at their craft. They urge executives “to train in the same systematic, multilevel way that world-class athletes do.” No, CEOs are not forced to run wind sprints (although some do). Loehr and Schwartz look at how the winners in the world of sports prepare for competition and then apply these techniques to managerial work.

So much for my plan to unleash it on the world.īut I was all the more glad to find so much work already done on corporate athleticism, because it has a lot to offer my field: the challenges faced by working parents. Apparently, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz have already made quite a lot of the term corporate athlete, having coined it way back in a 2001 HBR article ( I was only 13 years late to the party!) and explored it in a series of best-selling books about engagement, energy, and business success.

I loved the term so much I jotted it down, thinking I might make something of it in my writing and consulting. Before long, someone noted the analogy to high performance in sports, and used a phrase that piqued my curiosity: Corporate Athlete.

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At a ThirdPath Institute conference a few weeks ago, a great discussion arose around the fact that workloads tend to ebb and flow, and it’s important to know how to alternate between periods of peak effort and recovery.