Leadership Lessons from the Game of Golf: An 18-Hole Course in Leadership

Hole #8Get to the GreenPar 4 • 405 Yards

There are many different ways to reach the green. However, getting there isn’t enough. How we get there and what resources it will take is what often distinguishes the game’s winners from the game’s losers. Experience teaches us that taking shortcuts or cutting corners is not usually the best way to reach a goal. True, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line (and the most-direct route is often the best one to travel), but there are risks to this approach in golf as well as in business: Trying to make up for lost strokes by taking a shortcut across the lake might get you there in fewer ...