Decisions at game speed.

Neil analysed 31 Test matches. When a team lost a two-score lead and scored again within ten minutes, they got the lead back 17 times out of 17. Teams that didn't score were a coin toss.

A lead is not a thing you hold. It's a thing that dies, on a clock.

That's not a skill problem. It's a decision problem. And a decision problem has a fix.

In business the clock is slower but it still runs. Every week a call waits, the fix costs more. A wrong exec call costs quarters, not days. Pro teams decide in seconds and review the tape by morning.

• The three calls: Say it out loud, nobody else will. Do the arithmetic before you choose. The clock starts at the trigger, not at the try.
• How to commit in days, not meetings.
• How to review your decisions like game tape, and check your hit rate.

Neil Tunnah.

Neil spent 15 years coaching professional rugby across Australia, Europe and the USA, at Knox Grammar, the Greater Sydney Rams, Jersey Reds and RFC Los Angeles. Seven players who came through his programmes went on to Test rugby for Australia, England, Wales and Canada.

He is the founder and CEO of The Performance Chain, which gives executive teams the weekly performance system professional sport runs on. Based in Adelaide. Works across Australia, the UK and North America.