Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. Once, soccer players used to earn bonuses for scoring goals, but those were abandoned when managers realized that was an incentive to shoot — regardless of distance and position.

Cooper 15

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. Once, soccer players used to earn bonuses for scoring goals, but those were abandoned when managers realized that was an incentive to shoot — regardless of distance and position.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations. We have a global audience that has an unending thirst for mobile content, and a sophisticated CRM database that allows us to be a state-of-the-art marketing operation.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8