Cricket and Corporate

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I always try to draw parallel between Cricket and Corporate. Here are my opinions.


What is "Form" in cricket? It's completely notional, having no physical relevance in real life. It's just a psychological pressure that a cricketer forces himself into just out of peer experience. It comes when you know "somebody else" can take care of the game even if your individual performance is bad. Mind you! it doesn't have any significance in an Individual game(like Tennis) where you pay every time you make a mistake. Players like Fedrer, Sampras play over long period of time and they don't seem to complain about their "Form". They know they are out of the game once their game goes down.

In Corporate, why don't we ever talk about "Form". On a lighter side: "I don't have form today, so I can't code/design now" Sounds ridiculous, right??? In Corporate, the law is so simple: fetch or fire. Fetch me some work or get fired!!!

Both Corporate and Cricket constitute of team and their performance is heavily driven by every individual in the team. Yet, Cricketers like Tendulkar manage to have some luxury and the reason being their "past performance". It's just mockery of such team events.

The Cricket biggies should undersatnd that this is a game which is no different from Soccer where players are adored when play well and thrown to the gutter when they don't.

Learning: At the end of the day Individual Contribution matters a lot for the team. My favourite player, Sachin better understand that and start acting on it.