THE CARNOUSTIE EFFECT
THE CARNOUSTIE EFFECT Today, a colleague of mine mentioned the CARNOUSTIE EFFECT - something I have never heard before. And immediately, I could relate it to so many different occasions in my own life, both professional and personal. I am surprised this is not a common board-room terminology, thrown around by consultants and CXOs / senior management all year round to explain what was going on (before throwing up their hands in despair). If you have heard about this for the first time .. let me introduce you to the very interesting and pretty much universal phenomenon! THE CARNOUSTIE EFFECT ... ... is a term arising after the 1999 Open Golf Championship at Carnoustie, Scotland, when the world's greatest players, many of whom were reared on manicured and relatively windless courses, failed to play to theoretical par for the distance and were frustrated by the unexpected difficulties of the Carnoustie links compounded by the weather. Even the winner finished six strokes over par.