Not only that, but ideally a project retrospect should be held with all key stakeholders after project demobilisation to ensure that lessons are captured, discussed, and ultimately applied to future project management, and for future benefit.Īt a macro level as with the micro level, too often the emphasis is placed on a winning start rather than a winning finish. This is put down to human factors such as a loss of focus, loss of leadership, and a compromised team approach as distractions and sometimes disillusionment or despondency creep in.įor this reason it is vital that as a campaign winds down and the team is dissolved, a "best practice as usual" performance planning and learning approach is led through to the very end. Research has shown that on heavy industry projects and military campaigns there is generally an increase in accidents and incidents towards the end. But finishing strong is a differentiator far beyond the world of sport. There are hundreds of examples from dozens of sporting codes, of strong finishes which ignite the crowd and rewrite the history books. Mo Farah is a GB favourite who also deserves mention for his incredible final laps to win the 5,000m at both the London and Rio Games! Having won the 10,000m at both games as well, he is now one of very few Olympians to have won the "double-double". He was named track athlete of the Rio Games. In the final 50m he accelerated away from the field and destroyed the world record to set a new mark of 43:03. As he came around the final bend and into the home straight it initially seemed that he was being caught by the two pre race favourites, however van Niekerk was merely shifting gear. He was always in the lead but he needed a strong finish if he was going to eclipse the 43.18 second world record set by the legendary Michael Johnson in 1999. He was running in the outside lane and therefore had no visibility of the other finalists. rather "snatching victory from the jaws of defeat" would be more aligned with finishing strong.Īn example of a strong performance but particularly a strong finish which sticks in my mind from the Rio Olympics, is the world record breaking 400m win by South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk. "Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" is a reference that no sports person or team wants to wear. In sport there are many examples of late comebacks and corresponding flops. Standards can slip as we experience "performance creep" whereby best practice is eroded and poor practice becomes acceptable.
Our natural human tendency is often to compromise our level of excellence as time passes by. Finishing strong can be harder than it sounds.
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