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My Personal Coach

Coaching Tip

They don’t even have to be good at the sport. In sports, coaches focus on mechanics, conditioning, and strategy, and have ways to break each of those down, in turn. There was a moment in sports when employing a coach was unimaginable—and then came a time when not doing so was unimaginable. 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