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they even painted the inside of the team truck whiteBog'liq atomic-habitsthey even painted the inside of the team truck white
: Eben Harrell, “How 1% Performance
Improvements Led to Olympic Gold,” Harvard Business Review, October 30, 2015,
https://hbr.org/2015/10/how-1-performance-improvements-led-to-olympic-gold
; Kevin Clark,
“How a Cycling Team Turned the Falcons Into NFC Champions,” The Ringer, September 12,
2017,
https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2017/9/12/16293216/atlanta-falcons-thomas-dimitroff-
cycling-team-sky
.
Just five years after Brailsford took over
: Technically, the British riders won 57 percent of the
road and track cycling medals at the 2008 Olympics. Fourteen gold medals were available in
road and track cycling events. The Brits won eight of them.
the Brits raised the bar
: “World and Olympic Records Set at the 2012 Summer Olympics,”
Wikipedia, December 8, 2017,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_and_Olympic_records_set_at_the_2012_Summer_Olym
pics#Cycling
.
Bradley Wiggins became the first British cyclist
: Andrew Longmore, “Bradley Wiggins,”
Encyclopaedia Britannica,
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bradley-Wiggins
, last
modified April 21, 2018.
Chris Froome won
: Karen Sparks, “Chris Froome,” Encyclopaedia Britannica,
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chris-Froome
, last modified October 23, 2017.
During the ten-year span from 2007 to 2017
: “Medals won by the Great Britain Cycling Team at
world championships, Olympic Games and Paralympic Games since 2000,” British Cycling,
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/gbcyclingteam/article/Gbrst_gb-cyclingteam-GB-Cycling-
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you’ll end up thirty-seven times better
: Jason Shen, an entrepreneur and writer, received an early
look at this book. After reading this chapter, he remarked: “If the gains were linear, you’d
predict to be 3.65x better off. But because it is exponential, the improvement is actually 10x
greater.” April 3, 2018.
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