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Remembering A Bold Trailblazer Who Fought For Equity For Women In Sports

On the Brink

Recently on January 6, 2022, the NY Times published an article honoring the recently deceased Christine Grant, the University of Iowa’s first women’s athletic director and a pioneer who helped shape the 1972 Title IX legislation, tirelessly advocating for the fair treatment of women in sports. And yet, we’re so far from where we need to be.

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Will AI Replace the Front Office in Pro Sports?

Harvard Business

With accurate player-availability predictions for all active players, AI-powered decision-making is dramatically improved around three dimensions: 1) Risk management: If a productive wide-receiver is likely to get hurt, for example, a team might invest more in talented backups, to minimize drop-off in team performance during injury.

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Stop Comparing Management to Sports

Harvard Business

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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How Scientific Thinking Won the Women’s World Cup Title

Markovitz Consulting

As Sports Illustrated reports , that’s precisely what Ellis did: vowing to unlock more creativity in the attack, Ellis launched a period of experimentation (with formations and new players) that proved an old adage: Real change can be an ugly and uncomfortable process long before it becomes glorious. After all, look at the lousy results.

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Speaking Candidly

Alan Weiss

(The “celebrities” are the exceptions: current best-selling authors, former high level politicians, sports stars, etc.) The key is to combine your varied talents around your expertise and, as an expert in your field, consult, speak, train, publish, facilitate, and so forth.

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Go Faster Alone but Farther Together

Chad Barr

They teach us that while we can achieve quick wins on our own, the most significant, transformative successes require the combined efforts, diverse talents, and shared vision of a group.

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Band Parents?—?The Ideal Ad Hoc Team Model?

Harmonious Workplaces

Like sports, the work challenges the mind, body, and spirit, and it forms strong social skills and connections imperative to performing well. Even a quick tutorial using the EDGE method (explain, demonstrate, guide, and empower) can create high-performing individuals, especially with the talents they bring naturally. Willem, A.,