Today’s post is from Springboarder Ben Hall, fresh back from speaking at a conference in Norway but finding his blogging inspiration from the Canadian F1. Who knew race car driving could teach us so much?!
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This weekend saw an incident packed Canadian F1 grand prix race. It had everything with Jenson Button winning in specular style. After watching the race I had a question: what can startups learn from the incidents that happened?
Here’s how I see it.
- F1: While Hamilton and Button are team-mates at McLaren, they managed to clash early on ruling Hamilton out of the race. Hamilton
remained a team player, celebrating the win at the end.
- Startup: Passionate team members sometimes clash. The best teams put it to one side and focus on the end-goal of winning.
- F1: The race was red-flagged due to the amount of rain. This caused a lengthy delay resulting in a loss of monument and focus.
- Startup: No matter what’s going on around you, stay focus on your role, your responsibility and your end-goal.
- F1: At one point in the race, Jenson was way back in 19th position.
- Startup: No matter how far you fall behind, you can still win.
- F1: Jenson was in 2nd place at the start of the last lap, overtaking after Vettel made a mistake in the final moments.
- Startup: Keep pushing, keep trying, keep working. Your competitors are human too, if they make a mistake be ready to take advantage.
- F1: My twitter stream was full with everyone congratulating Button
- Startup: Win and everyone will love you.
- F1: Due to the delay it was the longest F1 race in history.
- Startup: It take’s a long time to win.
- F1: Button ended the race under investigation regarding another racing incident which could result in disqualification.
- Startup: You haven’t won until the money is in the bank.
