Business Game Time

What the final seconds of Super Bowl 46 teach us about strategic options, implications, choices, game theory, coordination and behavior under pressure.

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After being taken over by billionaire Bulat Chagaev, Swiss soccer club Neuchâtel Xamax has been changing coaches on a nearly daily basis, yet it didn’t make them more successful. Here’s why patience pays yet is tough to have and what former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has to do with all this.

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The NBA Finals between the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat gave so much interesting insights and ideas that I tried to put together 10 learnings that can easily be transferred to the business world and to our work environment.

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Isner and Mahut played for 11 hours at Wimbledon because no one made a mistake. If you want to win – in sports or in business – you have to force your opponents into making mistakes. By doing the unexpected and creative, any perfect defense can be broken, as examples show. Why imperfection is the real perfection.

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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.

Filed under: soccer (football) by Johannes
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Kitzbühel in Austria  is one of the most fancy ski resort in the Alps and home of probably the most famous downhill ski race of them all: The “Hahnenkamm” race on the legendary “Streif” slope. An extremely difficult and fast racetrack: The drivers only need three seconds from the start until they reach speeds of [...]

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