The Olympics are finally upon us and athletes from all over the world will be vying for medals, preferably gold. Every four years, we gather to witness who will triumph and who will crumble under the pressure, or ‘choke’ as they refer to it in sport.

Although most of us will not experience this kind of pressure on such a public stage, choking doesn’t just occur in sport. The public pressure on athletes to succeed is not unlike the corporate environment where the expectation...

“Pressure – changes everything, pressure. Some people, you squeeze them, they focus. Others fold.”    In film ‘The Devil’s Advocate’

Australia is about to be invaded by the world’s top tennis players vying for top spot in tournaments around the country and culminating in the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open in Melbourne this January. Sport is the ultimate in reality television, unscripted, often unpredictable, and particularly in an individual sport li...