Former Manchester United CEO says workers could learn something about feedback from pro athletes
Source: Business Insider ·
Peter Kenyon, who formerly led Manchester United and Chelsea, said feedback in sports is constant and immediate.
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Peter Kenyon has been working in sports for 30 years.F1Peter Kenyon, former CEO of Manchester United and Chelsea, said that feedback is constant and immediate in sports.Kenyon, now a board advisor for Atlassian Williams' F1 team, said companies can learn from this approach.He also said that feedback isn't always top-down in sports, which is important.Athletes don’t have the luxury of waiting for an annual review to hear how they performed — and that may be a good thing.The suspense that comes with anticipating a laundry list of critiques can sometimes be worse than the feedback itself. Plus, the older the feedback, the less relevant it may be.Peter Kenyon, the former CEO of Manchester United and Chelsea, told Business Insider that given the nature of sports schedules, when something goes wrong, it has to be fixed before the next event, which is often just days away."It's not 'let's work for three months to solve the problem,'" Kenyon said. "No, let's solve the problem now because we…
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