Dick Forsbury, Jan Boklöv, Steve Jobs: How to change the game
A lesson to learn from Steve Jobs: Why a great radical innovation has the potential to truly change the game.
A lesson to learn from Steve Jobs: Why a great radical innovation has the potential to truly change the game.
One of the most unusual post-season touchdowns ever in the NFL shows us that things aren’t automatically right just because it’s the majority’s opinion.
“Never change a winning team!” or: “Never change a winning business!”. Why is it so hard to innovate in successful companies, what can be done against it and what is Andy Grove’s approach?
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?
With George Steinbrenner, baseball lost a controversial, yet outstanding personality. And a very successful one, too: In the 37 years of his ownership, his investment in the New York Yankees yielded an average yearly rate of return of over 15%. Here are five lessons in entrepreneurship that can be learned from George Steinbrenner.
The new Major League Baseball (MLB) season has just started. Aren’t you excited? No? You wait until October before you tune in? Ah, okay, fair enough. The MLB regular season has 162 games. Not in total, per team. That’s close to 5000 (!) games before the Playoffs begin. What’s the point in having so many […]
I can’t believe I’m writing about figure skating again, as this is clearly not one of my preferred sports to watch, but in my last two posts, I already mentioned Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko. He “only” won the silver medal in Vancouver, finishing second behind U.S. American Evan Lysacek. No big sensation so far, […]
Welcome to BusinessGameTime.com A blog linking sports and business – What is this all about? Well, I will try to find things in the world of sports that I consider worth transferring to the business context. Maybe there will be something to learn. Maybe it will be just fun to do. And hey, I’m just […]