The 1% Mindset: How to 1000x Your Success & Productivity! - Manchester United Director Of Sport

TL;DR

Sir David Brailsford, former British Cycling performance director and current Manchester United Director of Sport, explains his marginal gains philosophy – aggregating small, week-by-week improvements to create a compounding performance advantage.

Key insights

• Marginal gains originated from the economics concept of marginal costing, adapted by Brailsford while lying on the floor thinking with large sheets of paper.
• The CORE acronym stands for Commitment (screen for it upfront), Ownership (humans perform better with control), Responsibility/Accountability, and personal Excellence (originally “personal excellence”
• Brailsford’s “robot test”: strip away emotions and consequences, ask what you would do if everyone were a robot, then factor emotions back in – this clarifies the best objective decision.