Curling is the kind of sport that exemplifies democracy even if unlike voting, it spikes public interest every four years.
While curling is probably more about drinking beer, it is surprising it hasn’t become something hipsters haven’t co-opted and ruined. NYC has only one club.
And Ivanka Trump is in attendance at the US-Sweden gold medal match.
Big eighth end (and the hammer) delivered a gold medal win for the USA. Is it too cold for Duluthers to go berserk and burn the city.
Information is symmetric in curling. Discourse occurs and rulings on proximity to the center/button are left to micrometers rather than referees. Information is shared as shot selection is discussed in front of your competition. In the televised matches every player is miked.
Curling is similar to the old British game of bowls, in which a ball was rolled across a level grass playing field. The difference is that Curling is played on ice.
Two teams compete against each other at any one time. Teams have four players, and each of them delivers two stones. Delivery is made in a manner that is similar to bowling, even bowling in an alley.
The difference is that the stone never leaves the ice. Instead the player uses the handle to push the stone in the desired direction, usually towards the center of the “target” at the other end of the ice sheet, as it’s called. Points are awarded on the basis of how close to the middle of the target a particular team’s stones are at the finish; and the one with the most points wins.
While all the glamor of playing the sport lies with the person who delivers the stone, the business of getting it to its intended goal depends on the sweepers. They are the two players who use their brooms to remove any loose ice from the path of the stone. If they fail to do this properly, then the stone will curl, hence the name of the sport.
In the new leadership, the leader is a sweeper. The employees are the ones who deliver the stones. And your job is to remove the obstacles they are likely to encounter and that will keep them from reaching the target. Just as in curling, you want those who work for you to find the most direct route possible to the goal. And so that means that in the truest sense of the word, you are a facilitator. You make things possible; you’re not the Pied Piper.
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