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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

In the CEO Afterlife

The notion of business as a combination of sport and war was attributed to Emile Herzog (1885-1967), a French author who used the pen name, Andre Maurois. I’m going to admit at the outset that I was a strong proponent of Herzog’s concept for most of my career. As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success.

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

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The notion of business as a combination of sport and war was attributed to Emile Herzog (1885-1967), a French author who used the pen name, Andre Maurois. I’m going to admit at the outset that I was a strong proponent of Herzog’s concept for most of my career. As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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3 Ways To Harness The Power Of Differences

Lead Change Blog

Until…there’s too much of it, and its dark side surfaces: lack of innovation, narrow-minded thinking, ingrained and unquestioned bias, outdated practices, and failure to grow as a person. If ignored or met with intolerance or indifference, these dissimilarities can be divisive, even lethal for career or business success.

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The Power of an Enemy

In the CEO Afterlife

As a kid in sports, I played my heart out, hated my opponents and cried when I lost. The late French author Andre Maurois once said, “Business is a combination of sport and war.” For most of my career, I operated within intensely competitive arenas where fractions of market share points were worth millions of dollars.

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August 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared 6 of the Most In-Demand Skills for the Future Workplace. Be it in the field of sports, business, academics, and any other human venture. Neal Burgis of Successful Solutions contributed Bringing Out the Innovator in Your Employees. ” Follow Bill on Twitter at @btreasurer.

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The ?M? Word: A Company's Most Underrated Intangible | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • November 30, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Life , Marketing , Strategy • 0 Comments. Sports teams with momentum go on inexplicable winning streaks while opponents can’t seem to string two wins together no matter how hard they try or how ‘talented’ their roster. Business isn’t all that different.

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