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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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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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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. They serve in project management roles, accounting roles, training and development roles, logistics roles, health and safety roles, and even roles in culinary procurement and sanitization.

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HBCUs and the NFL Draft: The Data and the Story

UPD Consulting

A historical look at the role of Black athletes and HBCUs in the sport, specifically through the lens of the NFL Draft, provides us with many rich stories about the development of football as we currently know it as well as the larger American society it operates within.

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The Greatest Leadership Myth Ever-Busted!

Rick Conlow

Free people up to use and develop their talents to the fullest. Most importantly, he pulled his racially divided nation together through the power of sport. In addition, go here for our RealTime Learning & Training leadership and personal development website. This is achieved through trust, openness, and ownership.

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Leadership Pressure is a Privilege

Organizational Talent Consulting

Athletes are trained to visualize themselves successfully achieving their goals before events. The reality of a volatile work environment is that it is impossible to train for every potential cross-cultural leadership situation. Organizational Talent Consulting. As a leader, you are asked questions that have no known answer.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are.