MARTIN MARSHALL
actually said that. A clever physicist, journalist, Australian-Rules Karaoke chp, poet and Expert chess player, Martin said that epigrmatic quote above in response to my Earl Weaver Baseball quirk of trying to draft multiple light-hitting switch-hitting gold glove center fielders (and always Gary Pettis ongst them) for the sim. Most seasons, I got enough offense out of slugging middle infielders (Cal Ripken Jr., Ryne Sandberg) to balance it out, but it was, I admit, a quirk.
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Saturday, October 06,
Gold-Glove Management, In Which Malcolm Gladwell
Learns at the School of Gary Pettis jackson 7 string guitar
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How can you expect to play at ge speed unless
you practice at ge speed? — Gary Pettis

In the previous entry, I introduced Managing Like A Centerfielder, based on insights from one of the 20th Century’s top Centerfielders, Gary Pettis. These insights are useful to all managers in competitive endeavors, because (as I found out in talking with Pettis) the skill set most useful to being a Gold Glove Centerfielder is not surprisingly parallel to that demanded of managers. its particularly useful to managers who not only face a competitive environment, but one that requires very quick decision-making, too fast to allow for executing rigorous analysis starting from the moment at which you know the context fully. In Malcolm Gladwell terms, Blink decision-making.

In this entry, we’ll explore how important it is not to practice making decisions, even if you dont execute them, and using those phantom decisions and projecting how they would have played out against what really happened keeps you sharp and ready to make functional quick decisions when the time comes to execute on them. Some of the interview gets repeated here — because its supporting an additional insight.