A recent survey [citation needed] found a correlation between success on the playing field and success in the boardroom. What remains unclear is whether this is due to a competative streak among the participants or the learned behavior of teamwork.
This statistic is not particularly interesting or helpful to those of us who aspire to a career of entrepreneurship since boardroom dreams are in the distant future. This is the distant future far beyond growing a closely held business where we may act as shareholder, director and executive rolled up in one. It is even past rounds of pitching the business to venture capitalists. (Is "pitching" in this case a sports metaphor?)
What is interesting - is what we don't know. How are business executives and entrepreneurs different? What are the traits and hobbies that manifest themselves among entrepreneurs? (Is it writing out questions and then trying to find the answers?) Do entrepreneurs also play sports? (Sir Richard Branson likes flying solo. Hmm.)
Do entrepreneurs tend to compete or collaborate? Are these mutually exclusive traits?
What does seem to be a notable characteristic is deviation from the norm. Apparently Branson was quite a handful in school and David Neeleman the CEO of Jet Blue wears his ADD as a badge of honor.
I don't know the answer but I will keep looking. In the meantime, read this poem by Rudyard Kipling.
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