Olympics 2024: five things elite athletes can teach us about staying motivated and managing stress at work

By Mladen Adamovic, Senior Lecturer in Cross-Cultural Management, King's College London

Over the course of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, spectators and TV viewers can expect to be thrilled by extreme levels of strength, speed, endurance and skill displayed by thousands of the world’s finest athletes.

But as well as being amazed by their physical prowess, we can learn valuable lessons from these super-humans about our own daily working lives – even if they don’t involve a track or a field.

Routine and habits

To become elite performers, Olympians need to practise. And practise. And then practise some more. Top sprinters like the Americans Noah…

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