Winner Take All Culture

Josh Howard of the Dallas Mavericks made a critical mistake last night in the 5th game of the NBA playoffs. One that Josh should lose lots of sleep over, so that it rarely happens again. He missed two critical free throws at crunch time that could have made all the difference between winning & losing. The little timeout episode he should just chalk up to shit happens. Josh, don't lose any sleep over this nonsense, making a mistake like that does not make you a loser, it make you human. Unfortunately this winner take all culture of ours is going to blow this incident up so much that if you pay attention to them an army of shrinks won't be able to help you!

There is a story that in the early days of IBM a green sales executive had botched a $5 million dollar deal (in the days when $5M was real money). A reporter/bystander (whatever) asked Thomas Watson (founder) if he was going to fire the employee, and he responded with "fire him? I just payed $5 million dollars for his education."

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