Are People From Sporting And Athletic Backgrounds Really More Successful In The Workplace?

March 5, 2010 - PRLog -- Athletes tend to make more money because their self-confidence and competitive nature makes them choose jobs that pay more money and strive to progress further than the average person states James Shulman, author of The Game of Life: College Sport and Educational Values.

For CEOs and CEOs-to-be, sports may be a more effective training ground than any business school, according to both psychologists and entrepreneur athletes themselves. Athletic endeavors help CEOs and CEOs-to-be develop such leadership skills as self-discipline, morale building, and teamwork. In a Harvard Business School study of roughly 30 graduates who had become entrepreneurs, almost all the respondents reported playing individual or team sports during their early years. Many felt strongly that competitive sports had prepared them not just to compete in life but also to deal well with winning, with losing, with setbacks, with training, and perhaps most importantly, with others, the report states.

This is especially true for women. Eighty-one percent of women executives played organized team sports growing up. These women attribute their success, in a part, to the fact that they learned the values that playing these sports teaches. Sports teach a lot about how to break thresholds and get past your own ego, which encourages a person to persist and be a more successful person for it.

Ronald Reagan stated “I’m a firm believer that the positive messages that the sports participation in our youth provides; forges the character, strengths, and inspires the ideals that guide us in the coming years.” He goes on to say “the values that sports instill remain with us, they become part of us; influencing for the better, all the decisions and choices we make in every facet of our lives.”

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