Business Game Time

In business and in sports, many say that becoming number one is easier than staying on top. Spanish keeper Iker Casillas shows how respect can be the key to staying successful continuously.

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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.

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To punish them for fan riots in an earlier game, soccer club Dynamo Dresden was not allowed to have any fans in their stadium for one match. Here’s how they managed to still sell out the stadium and create a strong bond with their fans – plus a team building approach you won’t find in the text books.

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Who would have put a bet on Djokovic becoming the best player in the world three years ago? Here’s why he is a great example of why companies should establish a recurring process of talent assessment instead of putting people on tracks too early.

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Social media channels are designed in a way that they strongly privilege recency. Two things need to happen (and will happen): A redesign of the channels in a way that values content and quality of content over recency and a change of user behavior away from high frequency towards relevance and meaning.

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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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There’s always someone better than you. Your competitiors will improve. If you’re not open to change, you will be changed. Find out what all this has to do with women playing soccer.

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What we can learn from the riots that broke out after River Plate Buenos Aires was relegated: The risks of customer loyalty.

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As soccer clubs try to learn from software on how to best build their teams, we can also learn from software development in our management processes. Here’s what Frontend vs. Backend thinking, Versioning, Distributed Systems, Search Engines and Agile Development can teach us.

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When FIFA president Sepp Blatter claims that there is no more “fair play and respect and discipline” without seeing the irony in these words, it becomes obvious how outdated his purely hierarchical management model is. Here’s why he’s wrong.

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