Entrepreneurial Lessons From Tiger Woods #4

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Watching Tiger Woods this weekend was impressive. As a “Sports Guy”, this type of accomplishment really impacted me. So, I took some time this week to look at Tiger’s career, his mistakes, and his accomplishments on and off the course. I believe as entrepreneurs we can learn a lot from high level performers like Tiger. In this episode, we look at the three areas Tiger claims help him achieve greatness.

Career Highlights:

Won first Masters at the age of 21
Was ranked #1 golfer in the world from age 23 – age 28 (August 1999 to September 2004 - 264 weeks)
After nine months was again ranked #1 golfer in the world from age 29 – age 34 June 2005 to October 2010 (281 weeks)
Self-imposed hiatus at Age 34 (December 2009 to early April 2010) to work on his personal life
Back Surgery at 38, 39, and 40
Age 42 Tour Championship in September 2018
Age 43 2019 Masters.

According to Tiger, being a world-class athlete and a visionary entrepreneur requires the same fundamental building blocks: a focused mindset, a precise method, and an endless pursuit of mastery.

Tiger has now taken his winning philosophy from the links into the boardroom with his TGR Ventures. "TGR is my chapter two—my way of building a legacy that’s about more than birdies and bogies" - Tiger Woods

Key Quotes from Tiger:

“As I reflected on the past few years, I realized that this was the time to push myself and those I trust to give even more, in new and different ways.” – Tiger Woods

“Tiger’s vision has always been focused beyond — beyond expectations, beyond comparisons, and beyond limits.” – TGR website

“No matter how good you get, you can always get better. And that’s the exciting part.” – Tiger Woods

This episode is rather short, but I found it interesting and wanted to share with you all. We can learn a lot from the successes and failures of professional athletes that will help in our businesses.

One important lesson from Tiger is when our businesses are not producing what we want, we can fall back on our method. Just like Tiger had to deconstruct his swing, we should analyze our business. If you listen to last week's episode about getting back in the saddle, that's kind of the process I've been going through recently.

The overall message I got from researching Tiger is that he has concluded that you should become a better version of yourself every day, in all areas.

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