Top Athletes Share Their Secret to Crushing Competition at the Office

Top Athletes Share Their Secret to Crushing Competition at the Office

Amelia Boone and Stephanie McMahon contend at the most elevated amounts in both their own and expert lives. 

Boone is a corporate lawyer at Apple (AAPL, - 0.57%) and one of the world's best obstruction racers, who has finished perseverance rivalries that require 96 hours without rest. McMahon is WWE's central image officer and a previous wrestler who once stuck The Rock. 

But then both offer a similar tip with regards to ruling the opposition: disregard it. 

"We are all hyper-focused individuals," says Boone, talking at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. Yet, "when I concentrate on other individuals, I winding into a terrible headspace." It's not about alternate racers out there, she says. "It's tied in with rivaling myself." 

Boone says the minute she quit stressing over what every other person was doing, she took her execution to the following level. 

McMahon resounded Boone, saying, "You have to concentrate on yourself or your organization and making it as well as can be expected potentially be." She adds that depending on strategies like catty conduct just cuts you down as opposed to helping lift others up. 

McMahon took in the business side of wrestling from her mother, previous (WWE, +1.67%) CEO Linda McMahon, and the innovative side from her father, one-time proficient wrestler and current WWE CEO and executive Vince McMahon. 

Boone was talking with a cast on her hand, having had plates and screws embedded in the wake of shattering her fingers amid a current race. Boone says that recuperating rationally and physically from damage has been a learning knowledge. 

"There is that silver covering," she says. "You don't pick up anything when you're winning. You learn things when everything is taken from you."