{"id":35242,"date":"2026-06-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/?post_type=article&p=35242"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:37:37","slug":"what-can-we-learn-from-organisations-that-sustain-their-success","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/what-can-we-learn-from-organisations-that-sustain-their-success\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can we Learn from Organisations that Sustain their Success?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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At a recent Leaders virtual roundtable, John Bull of Management Futures explained that long-term success depends on preserving what works while embracing challenge and evolution.<\/p>\n \n \n \n

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By John Portch<\/h6>\n
Back in 2011, Peter Keen, then the Performance Director at UK Sport, said he was kept awake at night pondering the sustainability of success.<\/h6>\n

He even compared some high-performance environments to a cult.<\/p>\n

\u201cPete didn\u2019t mean that as a negative thing, but he felt there was a cult of personality around figures such as the coach or the GM,\u201d said John Bull, to whom Keen was speaking at the time. \u201cHis concern was when they leave; what would happen to performance?\u201d<\/p>\n

Bull, the Head of High Performance at Management Futures, recently led a virtual roundtable session for Leaders Performance Institute members that explored the facets of organisations that have sustained their success over a long period.<\/p>\n

\u201cPete challenged us,\u201d added Bull. \u201cHe said, \u2018it would be great if someone did a piece of research helping us to understand, if you look at sustained environments, what are they doing differently? And what can we learn from that if we want to make a system more sustainable?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

There are both environmental and leadership dimensions and, as Bull would go on to explain, it is something at which all leaders can work.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do you become very good at being a sustained leader within your own organisation? How good are you at balancing adding value for today versus adding value for tomorrow?\u201d<\/p>\n

He then posed another question to encourage the table to think about the topic:<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you had to place a single bet on the organisation that will be the most consistently successful over the next 50 years \u2013 in any domain you choose \u2013 what characteristics would you look for?<\/em><\/p>\n

In response, the table proposed three characteristics:<\/p>\n