As I’m writing this article, Justin Thomas has just broken through and won the PGA Championship, one of golf’s four major championships. As he thanked his swing coach, his putting coach, and all the other coaches who had helped him, he reminded us that no one ever achieves peak performance without a coach, whether in sport or in business.
“This was one of the
key principles Keith
McFarland discovered
in the research that
became his book, The
Breakthrough
Company.”
He found that for every company that broke through to scale up and become an entrepreneurial enterprise, there was a transition from relying on its own ideas to enlisting best practices from people outside the company.