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Winning Teams Know to Trust Their Team Members

Leading Blog

I N BUSINESS, as in sports, the aspect that distinguishes the best teams from the mediocre teams comes down to collaboration. Too often, managers put their heads down and focus only on their own departments. Let’s apply the team sport analogy further. Yet many times, companies struggle with sharing and aligning functional plans.

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A Few Parallels Between Sports, Life and Leadership

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Few Parallels Between Sports, Life and Leadership Last few months, I have been playing Table Tennis regularly. We can draw a lot of parallels between sports, life and leadership – because ultimately, all of these are a way to express ourselves better. That’s what every sport teaches us!

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99% of Marketing Spending is Wasted

CEO Blog

I wrote an article a while ago on " The Fallacy of ROI on Marketing " and reused the concept in my book " Zero to $2 Billion - The Marketing and Branding Story Behind the Growth ". Marketing success really is about math but you never know some of the variables. Marketing is a bit like sales as far as success rates goes.

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How Leaders Can Quickly Take A Team From Worst To First

Terry Starbucker

It’s September, and for sports fans that means the NFL season is starting, and the Major League Baseball pennant races are heating up as they head to the postseason. It was a profile of Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter , whose team is in a great battle with the mighty New York Yankees for first place in their division.

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Four Essential Behaviors for Every Leader

Leading Blog

Throw in complex organizations operating in complex markets, and you’ve really got to marvel at how it all comes together every day. There’s a reason that professional sports teams pay millions of dollars for a coaching team. Managing Engineers are expected to have their hands on a keyboard most of the time.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. Ankersen’s insight was this: soccer is one of the world’s unfairest sports. Let’s consider a few examples.

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Fixing the Game: What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL

Leading Blog

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. That theory, says Roger Martin, “had the unfortunate effect of tightly tying together two markets: the real market and the expectations market.”

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