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My Personal Coach

Coaching Tip

They don’t even have to be good at the sport. Vocalists, he pointed out, employ voice coaches throughout their careers. In sports, coaches focus on mechanics, conditioning, and strategy, and have ways to break each of those down, in turn. They parcel out their observations carefully. The U.C.L.A.

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Will Moneyball Analytics Kill Loyalty and Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. This next-generation "moneyball" ethos now transforming pro sports has enormous implications for how high-performance managers will incent and inspire tomorrow's high achievers. We have a luxury in sports," says Morey. "We

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How Women at the Top Can Renew Their Mental Energy

Harvard Business Review

Alexandra, the hedge fund partner, had colleagues who were obsessed with American football, but as she told me: “I never talk about sports. Risk-taking is part and parcel of corporate careers, and few people, men or women, enter the top ranks of the organization without having made a bold gamble or two along the way.

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