24.06.2026
20 mins

Steps Ahead Ep 1 - Tony O'Connor on Being Average and Winning Olympic Gold

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Ready to redefine your understanding of success?

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Discover how Tony O'Connor's philosophy on "Being average" and how practising Excellence as a Team can transform your approach to challenges, in Sport, in Property and in Business.

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Good to Great by Jim Collins is one of the highest selling businesses books in the world and today we're going to talk about why.

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The New Zealand Men's Rowing 8 and their path to Olympic Gold in 2021 offers a fantastic parable of the lessons from Jim and his team.

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Funnily enough, it all starts with Getting the right people in the boat.

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The story of the Kiwi Olympic 8 team is well documented in The Rowing Coach (below), a fantastic 30 minute documentary about Tony and the crew who fought to be the best.

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What is clear from the discussion is how it all starts with who, then what.

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Take a watch of the full Rowing NZ Video below: 

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Are you ready to get a step ahead?

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