Just read an article in the New Yorker by Atul Gawande that was excellent and linked here Coaches for doctors?.

I particularly liked the following vinettes:

Consider Maxwell Perkins, the great Scribner’s editor, who found, nurtured, and published such writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. “Perkins has the intangible faculty of giving you confidence in yourself and the book you are writing,” one of his writers said in a New Yorker Profile from 1944. “He never tells you what to do,” another writer said. “Instead, he suggests to you, in an extraordinarily inarticulate fashion, what you want to do yourself.”

Good coaches know how to break down performance into its critical individual components. The U.C.L.A. basketball coach John Wooden, at the first squad meeting each season, even had his players practice putting their socks on. He demonstrated just how to do it: he carefully rolled each sock over his toes, up his foot, around the heel, and pulled it up snug, then went back to his toes and smoothed out the material along the sock’s length, making sure there were no wrinkles or creases. He had two purposes in doing this. First, wrinkles cause blisters. Blisters cost games. Second, he wanted his players to learn how crucial seemingly trivial details could be. “Details create success” was the creed of a coach who won ten N.C.A.A. men’s basketball championships.


Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/03/111003fa_fact_gawande#ixzz1b5FVj5wO

Omega and the Olympics

Omega continues its relationship with the 25th straight Olympics in London!! This picture was inspired by the adventures of Alex Cheng, the founder of Seagull, the North American distributor for Omega in the 1970s and 80s.