I began my day at Wimbledon. I have childhood memories of watching the Wimbledon championships with my parents and brothers. At a young age it's hard to grasp the game itself, let alone how quickly it changes over time.
The Wimbledon museum brought back many fond memories. It helped me see how much the game has changed, even in my short lifetime. Due to visiting Wimbledon and the British Museum, I'm gaining a new hope that knowledge management will eventually morph into "how successful businesses are run". Or maybe it won't, and that will be ok too I suppose.
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The tour guide at Wimbledon explained that "Wimbledon" is the name of the area, not the name of the club. The club is private and it's called the "All England Lawn Tennis Club". The tourney started in 1877 when one of their tools broke and they needed to fix it. They could have asked for money from members, or the club owner could have paid to fix it, but someone had the brilliant (strange?) idea to start a little tournament to raise funds to fix the broken tool. The rest is history, it's now one of the most popular tournaments on the planet. It's certainly paid for that broken roller. From a business perspective, this sounds almost like gamification to me, and again, I tie it to km and wonder, what kind of tourney or game would help businesses?
The other piece I remember is a single quote. As the final two competitors enter on to centre court for the final battle, the last words they see before entering the court are "If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same..." (from the poem "if"). What a powerful mental model to take onto the court - ie, both of you are winners, one will lose today, but move beyond that "distraction" and get back up trying with a good attitude.
That's only the first third of my day, so I'll post the rest if the day separately.
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