This year’s UEFA Champions League Final between Bayern Munich and Chelsea FC ignited a lot of discussion on whether or not Chelsea’s ultra defensive approach in the final (as well as in the semi-finals against Barcelona) was a clever and effective strategy or simply the death of soccer.
This post uses the tool of SWOT analysis to show that Chelsea’s success wasn’t a result of luck, but of good strategic analysis and execution.
Steve McClaren, the story behind the crazy number of coaching changes at German Bundesliga, English and German soccer management models compared and what can be learned for successful team work from all this.
While it was an unusual, unexpected decision by FIFA to host the 2022 World Cup at Qatar, from a purely economical perspective, it may be one that makes sense. Here’s why.
The Qatar bid to host the FIFA World Cup in 2022 probably won’t go through because of the small size of the country. Ironically, this “compactness” has been a major selling point in their campaign. Here’s more about consumer insights, marketing misconceptions and why partnering is good.
Why does it seem like soccer matches pick up speed after half time? It’s all about sense of urgency, better understanding, confidence and risk taking. Here are two ideas how to use this for improving meetings: The “22 minute meeting” and moving the half time up.
While teams in the big European soccer leagues play to qualify for the European Cup, teams in lower divisions don’t have that kind of motivation. While top management sits in fancy global meetings, work from those in lower management is less recognized and less incentivized. But why not create a “European Cup” for lower divisions?
The official World Cup final is over, but did you know there is also an “unofficial” World Cup? And a world team ranking? Seems like we can’t live without measuring performance. In this post it is suggested to switch focus from evaluating to improving. The vision for a future organization is that we don’t care for measureable evaluations, but for how to improve.
A lot of bad calls by the referees at the World Cup resulted in players and coaches complaining. This article talks about the “referees” in your job: Bosses, colleagues, the HR department, etc. and why complaining about them is as useless as in soccer. Here’s how to get over your stubbornness and come up with the right reactions.
Soccer tactics are like fashion: They only last for a certain time until new ones come up. Looking at the history of tactics at the World Cups, this article compares fashions in management strategies to soccer tactics fashion and also finds a way to explain why many matches at the 2010 World Cup were quite boring.
With Diego Maradona and Carlos Bilardo both going below the belt – are Argentina the bad boys of the World Cup? No, they are not; it’s just leaders taking away the pressure from their team. Learn more about craziness on purpose and the role of a wig in this post.
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