Emmitt Smith's Career

Phase two- The momentum phase. Your success becomes much more dependent on your track record. If you are at a marketing exec, then this is where you build your brand, manage new products introductions and advertising campaigns. At some in the momentum phase, in business this is usually at 45 to 55, there comes a time where careers comes a time when careers become diverged. Many people start to recede and get passed over for new opportunities.

• Phase three- The harvest phase. Some move on the harvest phases that is the final phase of their careers amid ever increasing success.

Understanding career paths evolve will help progress along the dynamic path. There is an important interaction between your potential and your experience

After having a champion career how do you transfer the same skills into a new career. Emmitt Smith, professional football player had to transfer his skills from the football field and to a business perspective. What makes his tricky is that not many business that is in need of his talents. When you are in a situation

where your skills are not needed, you have to evolve. You have to get out of your comfort zone. For some sport induvial it is hard to evolve because, they have a level of narcissism.
There are athletes that don’t want to leave their sports.

Michael Jordan or Mario Lemieux. Both have come out of retirement, because they were not ready for the next step. There are athletes that fade away after retirement. It’s hard to transition from being a demi-god to a normal person. The South African sevens rugby team, Coach Neil Powell, played for the team and was instrumental in winning the 2003 championship. After he retired he became a coach, even though he was still young. He was the head coach to bring the World Series Rugby championship, back to SA. He was the only player and coach to have won both. So Powell was the same as Lemieux, except he went back as a coach. Other players don’t want to be in the spotlight anymore, or they go on the list of fallen champions. The most essential requirement for avoiding the fate of the fallen champion is to plan ahead and lay the groundwork early on for life after

sports.
Bjorn Borg one of the greatest tennis players in history, never build on his success. After years out of tennis he had to sell his Wimbledon hardware. He had financial issues, because he didn’t lay his groundwork for a life after tennis. Billy Jean King and, John McEnroe, and Chris Evert build on their legacies.
The challenges of leaving your perch is real. It is difficult to change and become a leader. It is more challenging to go from an individual competitor to a leader. Difficulties that may come up:
• It requires fundamental changes in your mindset as well as your actions.
• Secondly, there are powerful pressures against this change.
• Three are very real risks associated with associated.
There are some real challenges that also go with hiring a star champion. If the person never had any training. John Smit, South Africa rugby World Cup Winner, was hired to be a team manager a month after he retired for the Natal Sharks in SA. It wasn’t fair because he had no qualifications and he was not very good at it. Star athletes can be hired because the organization think it would be good publicity, and they think that superior skills can be transferred easily.
Only by growing can you escape the fallen champion route. Accepting and embracing the change can keep you evolving, and keep you on the dynamic path.