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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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Here’s what the difference between Federer-, Nadal- and Djokovic-type managers is and why you should hire more of the latter ones.

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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.

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Why 80.000 people turn up at a hockey game, the creation of a new selling proposition, sticky messages and why there is no “Dislike Button” on Facebook.

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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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