It started with a gift.
A golf club set personally handed to me by the President of our company.
He said, “You’ll learn a lot out there.”
I thought he meant about golf. He meant people.
Because golf reveals things the boardroom hides.
In meetings, everyone’s polite. Strategic. Quoting Simon Sinek like it’s a religion.
But on the golf course? You’ll see who really practices “emotional intelligence” and who’s one slice away from throwing their driver into the lake.
Some people blame the wind.
Others blame the grass.
One guy blamed the sun.
Even gravity.
Then there are the calm ones.
Golf’s funny like that.
It silences the loud, humbles the know-it-all, exposes the fake calm, and rewards those who can laugh at their own bad swing.
The fairway doesn’t care about your title or your KPIs. It only cares if you can recover.
Maybe that’s why the President gave me that set.
Not as a gift, but as a test.
Because in golf, like in life, everyone looks good at tee-off.
Character shows up on the second shot. When the ball didn’t go where you planned.
Never trust a guy who blames gravity.