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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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How to Coach, According to 5 Great Sports Coaches

Harvard Business Review

Business is not a sport. ” In 2000, Bill Parcells , a football (American football, this time) coach famous for turning around underperforming teams, wrote about his approach, which is slightly blunter than Ferguson’s. ” And unlike Parcells, Walsh expressed caution about being too direct.

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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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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies

Harvard Business Review

United Parcel Service. Sports Direct International. JD Sports Fashion. Telecommunications. MasterCard. Vodafone Group. Telecommunications. Kingfisher. Consumer Goods. Delivery Services. Banco Santander. Automotive. Technology. Metals & Mining. Walgreens Boots Alliance. TripAdvisor. Online Retail. Virgin Money. Methodology.

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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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