{"id":27629,"date":"2024-08-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/?post_type=podcast&p=27629"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:16:08","slug":"i-told-the-premier-league-people-will-not-want-to-work-for-you","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/i-told-the-premier-league-people-will-not-want-to-work-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Hill: How Organisations Survive and Thrive for Over 100 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Alex Hill, the Co-Founder and Director of the Centre for High Performance compelled the league to consider its own mortality before suggesting ways it can ensure its relevance a century from now.<\/p>\n \n \n \n

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Alex Hill works with a range of sporting organisations. He sometimes stuns them into silence too.<\/h6>\n

On one such occasion, Hill, the Co-Founder and Director of the Centre for High Performance, compelled senior leaders at the Premier League to confront its own demise.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said: \u2018at some point people will not want to work for you\u2019. Now that feels impossible at the moment,\u201d Hill tells the Leaders Performance Podcast.<\/p>\n

How did that observation go down?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was quite a quiet room,\u201d Hill says. \u201cAt the moment, they’re lucky they’ve got the pick of the best talent, the best physios, the best scientists \u2013 but that might not be there forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hill spent 13 years studying organisations that have out-performed their peers for over 100 years, including the All Blacks, Eton College and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The result is his book Centennials: The 12 Habits of Great, Enduring Organisations<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want society to support you long term, your impact has to be much broader than just creating role models,\u201d he continues. \u201cWhy don’t you take the learning from being at the cutting edge of mental and physical performance and share that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Hill believes that the British national governing bodies competing at the Olympic and Paralympic Games could feed those lessons back into the community in the form of a \u201cspin-offs division\u201d similar to that of NASA (another centennial).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis spin-offs division [could be] designed to take that learning and feed it into all of society so that the whole of our country develops.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is just one idea Hill shares during the course of a conversation full of advice for sporting organisations. He spoke of the New Zealand All Blacks and their readiness to embrace failure [40:20]; finding smarter ways to attract money and talent [10:45]; and why a diverse talent pool can make an organisation more relevant to a broader swathe of society [17:15].<\/p>\n