Sean Glaze uses basketball analogies to explain how winning teams stop dwelling on past mistakes. Instead of blaming each other for what already happened, teammates focus on encouraging the next play and moving forward together.
And sometimes we say things to coworkers that can be dangerous or destructive or damaging. There are athletes and there are coworkers that sometimes look back and criticize things that have already happened, to point blame at what's back there. I call those rearview criticisms. Rearview criticisms are dangerous And in basketball it sounds like this: Why didn't you block out? Why weren't you in the right defense? Why didn't you set that screen? But people who give rearview criticisms don't realize that nobody can go back and change the past. See, in your office it might be, why didn't you get that paperwork in? Why weren't you here on time? But people can't change the past. Winning teammates consistently say what people can actually take action on. Instead of looking in the rearview mirror and blaming with a rearview criticism, winning teammates give encouragements and reminders. Because encouragements and reminders focus on the next play, because the only play that you have control on is the next one.
