Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In the last 18 months working with some of the world’s biggest sports brands, I’ve done research that has taught me the importance of market research to build strong brands and grow sales. Sports teams have some of the best brand codes around. My favorite mug…do you know the team? I bet you might?! You codify everything.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

A few of the things that stuck with me as I went back through the recording and my notes: The correct question right now is about “relevance” : It isn’t whether or not arts/culture/entertainment/sports is dying, but it is about relevance. ” That’s the First Question for the Arts/Sports/Entertainment Businesses?

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On the Brink

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In the early 1970s, two significant events had a major effect on women’s sports. Although Title IX applies to a variety of programs, it has received the most attention for its impact on athletics, especially at the college sports level. The women’s national soccer team celebrating after winning the 2019 FIFA World Cup.

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Martinka Consulting

MAY 29, 2019

This is not about sports, but it’s based on the April 5, 2019 Wall Street Journal’s sports page, which had an article about former UCLA and NBA player Earl Watson and his goal to coach college basketball, preferably at his alma mater. The post When Sports, Kids, and Relationships Collide appeared first on Martinka Consulting.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The authors present an updated approach that has generated positive outcomes in military, business, and sports contexts. The framework, known as VUCA, has been widely discussed and adopted since, but it turns out to be better at describing what successful leaders do than teaching all leaders how to succeed.

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2018

Sports are exciting because of upsets. The post Predicting Business Success and Sports Drafts – A Crapshoot appeared first on Martinka Consulting. No matter how good someone is, they’re going to take their time, do multiple interviews, and thoroughly vet everybody. He never seemed to get this. It’s hard to predict results.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Ed Stack, the chief executive of Dick’s Sporting Goods, decided after the Parkland school shooting to pull assault rifles and high-capacity magazines from all of his company’s stores. The controversial choice hurt revenues.

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CaseInterview.com

JANUARY 30, 2023

In sports like tennis, golf, and baseball, there’s the concept of a “sweet spot.” ” These sports involve swinging a racquet, club, or bat at a ball. If you’ve ever played any of these sports, you know what I’m talking about. Now, with any sport or career endeavor, it is absolutely possible to practice and improve.

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Simon Associates

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

For the past several years, I have written blogs about women in sports and their entry into the mainstream. I wasn’t writing about women who have competed or participated in women's sports but rather, those women who have attained positions in what has traditionally been the men's bastion. You can find them here.

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Think high-profile consumer goods, and sports apparel comes quickly to mind. For the last few years, the world's fastest-growing major sports apparel enterprise has been Adidas. The CEO overseeing Adidas's flourishing is Kasper Rørsted, a man who spent the first half of his career in the tech industry.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Every year, we spend more than a trillion dollars worth of time and attention on organized spectator sports. The half-life of a sporting event is incredibly short. It turns out that this insignificance and the ephemeral nature of sporting events is the heart of their appeal. Soccer hooligans are a real problem.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Often, when I’m asked to give a speech on strategy at some company event or conference, I find that one of the other speakers is a former professional sports player. Although there is nothing wrong with commitment and perseverance, I, however, think sport (much less war) is often an unhelpful analogy.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The buzz around the biggest game in America’s biggest sport is, as always, about more than football. Even as high-minded a publication as The Economist gets caught up every so often in the connections between sports and business. Here’s what’s wrong with making analogies between sports and business.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

How the sports legend and civil rights icon made decisions throughout his career to leave a lasting impact on the world.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 27, 2015

In the NFL, and other pro sports, the league has a salary cap that teams must adhere to. The post Socialism May Work in Sports but Not in Business appeared first on Martinka Consulting. It’s to promote parity and it’s worked. Over the last 10 years only five of the 32 teams have a cumulative winning percentage of.600 600 or higher.

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Simon Associates

JANUARY 4, 2023

That's right: six women officials (including Kathryn Nesbitt of the US) worked this year's tournament, the most-watched international sporting event on the planet.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 28, 2022

We worked through her brand positioning as a consultant to the sports industry who transformed front-line teams into brand ambassadors, which made logical sense given her experience working for the Red Sox, Dodgers, and the Cubs. I was Jahaan's first business mentor when she started her business. That's exactly what she does today!

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CaseInterview.com

JANUARY 30, 2023

In sports like tennis, golf, and baseball, there’s the concept of a “sweet spot.” ” These sports involve swinging a racquet, club, or bat at a ball. If you’ve ever played any of these sports you know what I’m talking about. Now, with any sport or career endeavor, it is absolutely possible to practice and improve.

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Simon Associates

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In 1973, she became the athletic director of women’s sports at the University of Iowa, one of the first women in the country to hold this title. (In In those days, there were two athletic directors: one for male athletes and one for female.).

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Simon Associates

MAY 19, 2022

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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Prior to the Super Bowl last Sunday, you couldn’t pick up a sports section without reading about the duel between Tom Brady, the greatest quarterback of all time, and Patrick Mahomes, the best quarterback in the game today.

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Simon Associates

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This put a woman squarely in the arena of what has traditionally been a men-only sport. Talk about a glass ceiling being smashed!

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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Yesterday at Advertising Week in New York City, MLB, NBA, and NFL executives shared their thoughts on the evolution of customer engagement in major league sports and why they’re experimenting with new technologies from live video to virtual reality. Kids learn about sports differently today,” commented Dawn Hudson, CMO of the NFL.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Having worked with numerous high level sports’ teams I know coaches would rather have this information than not have it at all. The post Sports & StrengthsFinder – Using Strengths to Build Strong Teams appeared first on Leadership Vision Consulting. There is no formula that will guide you exactly how to do this.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 15, 2023

Archery is a very simple (but not easy) sport. ” It takes young children all of two minutes to learn the objective of the sport. When my kids were younger, they loved archery — using a bow and arrow to hit a target. There is a target made up of multiple circles of different sizes.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MARCH 26, 2023

One Size Fits None” is a loser: The right question isn’t “are the arts/entertainment/sports dying?” The sad reality is that too many arts organizations, sports teams, concert venues, start with the point of view of “what works for me?” The right question is, “Are you relevant?” One Big Thing: Focus on your customer.

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Management Consulted

JULY 9, 2019

While MBB means men’s basketball to many avid sports fans, those in the consulting world know the acronym also stands for the holy grail of consulting firms: McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, and Bain. The MBB consulting firms are commonly ranked … Continue Reading. The post MBB Firms appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Simon Associates

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Morgan is important for three reasons: First , in a male dominated sport, until recently it went against the established norms to hire a female senior executive. Why is this important for leadership? The hiring of Ms. Three of my previous blogs talk to this point: Two Incredible Women Who Are Succeeding In A Man's World.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with businesses in an industry whose customers already self-identify as fans: sports. For billions of people around the world, sports are a matter of passion, touching lives by offering a depth of human engagement unparalleled in other activities. In sports, every second matters.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 10, 2022

One big area is sports – many people have a vested interest in major sports. If you know about the key events and happenings in major sports, you will be able to hold a conversation about a topic that many consultants enjoy talking about. No need to dig yourself into a hole. International Level.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

What we can learn from the NBA about reckoning with race at work.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Non-baseball fans often say they don’t like the game because something’s not happening “all the time.” ” Baseball fans love the multi-levels of strategy. If you’re partial to the up and down of basketball or soccer, the down times between strategy implementation (the action) may seem slow.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

Now that people aren’t commuting or racing around to take their kids to sports practice or lessons, it’s a terrific opportunity to connect. My best piece of advice for independent consultants is to “keep your network warm.” Don’t be that person who only reaches out when you need something, including looking for work. Consulting guru David A.

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Simon Associates

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 1973, she became the athletic director of women’s sports at the University of Iowa, one of the first women in the country to hold this title. (In Last week my wife Andi Simon wrote a blog about a pioneering early entry in the women’s rights movement, Christine Grant, who took a leadership position during the early days of Title IX.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MAY 19, 2023

This is important: Sports teams have lived on long-term premium contracts for a long time. While also heavily investing their attention in the sport and the team. I had one of the most fun days I’ve had watching sports when I went to Stamford Bridge in 2022. We talked about awareness, pricing, and more this week. Why is this so?

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

It can happen to sports and music fans, to investors, to companies that have confidence in their view of the world, or to social or political gatherings. An echo chamber is created by a marketer to assemble a group of people who are insulated from conventional discourse.

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Alan Weiss

DECEMBER 28, 2022

“The statistics show a strong upward trend in sports betting online.” A trend is a general direction in which change and evolution is taking place. ” A prediction is a forecast (or guess) about the future. “The financial analyst for local television predicts a flat market for the next year.”

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