Team Work and Your Fit

I often blog about how being successful in sailing is often disconnected from the working world- for me and some other boat bums I have met.

The thing is there is a very direct parallel between working life and boats to be drawn for me. On a racing boat I absolutely HAVE to be on the management team with some authority and defined responsibility. The only exception to this rule is where the boat is particularily fun to sail on.

In jobs this is it! There was no space for me here or at the dynasty because I need to take up a bit more than I am allowed. This barging around like a bull in a china shop can lead to management doubting me, and then finding reasons to get rid of me in a couple of cases, and then hire someone more junior.

Unfortunetly unlike boats, you can't really just have an evening sail, work out you are just going to be a "delivery bitch" and then walk away saying thanks for the sail. i have whoared around but more than that I have networked my way onto the best boats for me and that has been a win-win ( Literally !!! on the race course we win as a team together!)

So this is a personal dynamic many others will recognise.

More on team dynamics later