Ultimate advice

When I was growing up, ultimate (originally known as ultimate frisbee) had not yet been invented.  While we played with frisbees, it was mainly just a lot of tossing them around.  Since then, the sport has developed and highly skilled players and teams compete worldwide.I've had a forced sabbatical from playing soccer here in Melbourne (no one plays during the summer apparently), but have been lucky to be invited to join a local co-ed division three ultimate team.  It's been great fun to play a sport which in which the rules are self-enforced, i.e., without referees, and where the "spirit of the game" is the dominant culture.Nonethless, there remains a role for a team leader, often a player-coach, and in this case we are blessed to have Michelle Phillips, a world class player, as ours.  Off the field, she and I have traded stories about leadership, and I've also had a chance to watch her skills in that regard during games and her post-game advisories to the team.  The latest one struck me as having lessons well beyond the playing field.  Here's an excerpt:There's a tendency in teams (whether sporting or otherwise) to try to 'fix' everything, to try to have the strategy perfect, to try to get everything absolutely right. It's not possible. More importantly, trying to do this is actually detrimental to the overall performance of a team. Let's have a look at why, and at what we can do instead. When we try to correct every non-perfect action out ...
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