The Similarities Between Golf and Management

I love golf. I really love to play golf. I have been playing a lot of golf lately. Something that I am coming to realize, however, is that golf is a lot like management. There are days when I leave the golf course and I feel on top of the world. Every shot was on target and every putt sunk in. But there are also those other days when the drive I shot decides to go far off track or that ball will just not find its way into the hole. Its a lot like management. Some days everything is clicking...the time is managed perfectly to get everything on the to do list checked off and there are no employee issues to contend with. BUT there are those other days when every task I set out to accomplish is thwarted by the latest crisis and every employee is taking a number at the door to file a complaint. So I am learning to take the good with the bad and keep returning to the golf course and the office. Who knows? Perhaps I will hit a "hole in one" in both places!