UIPM Secretary General’s Message: Pentathlon is antifragile!

What does 'antifragile' mean? - The Churning

We are living through a time of extraordinary change. And like the growth of Covid-19, the rate of that change is accelerating. If we want to live well through these changes we can’t just do more of what worked in the past. We need a new approach to leading ourselves, and others, through times of change. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s third book gives us a hint of what this new approach could look like. In the book he invents a new word: ‘antifragile’.…

UIPM Secretary General’s Message: Pentathlon is antifragile!

Modern Pentathlon was high-born, founded by the man who revived the entire Olympic movement. But in the era that we now regard as “modern”, the sport struggled to survive due to complex features that only suited the elite, excluding everyone else. You might have heard many times of Pentathlon’s ‘survival games’ in the Olympic movement… each time we were on the edge and faced