Simon Associates

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

For the past several years, I have written blogs about women in sports and their entry into the mainstream. I wasn’t writing about women who have competed or participated in women's sports but rather, those women who have attained positions in what has traditionally been the men's bastion. You can find them here.

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Sports Management Culture 17

Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2024

Isolation: You can eliminate or reduce isolation by visiting a coworking space or a coffee shop, joining a club or intramural sports team, or working from a friend or family member’s house. Fortunately, you can overcome these obstacle. Here’s how.

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Sports Video System Meeting 250

Harvard Business

APRIL 8, 2024

This has been shown to make us grow more generous and less prejudiced toward them, but it’s a flawed way to understand others, because it treats empathy as a solo sport, encouraging listeners simply to try to understand what someone else is going through.

How To 254

How To Sports Leadership Management 254

Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. So, we’d like to give you guidance in this flow of resources – we’ve selected 11 project management books that any successful project manager should discover. Enjoy the reading!

Management 29

Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 29

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

Business people and business theorists love to draw distinctions between management and leadership. They tell us that “managers do things right; leaders do the right thing” and “management is administration, but leadership is innovation.” This is a conundrum that many of us describe, but is it real?

Management 132

Management Leadership Sports Efficiency 132

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The buzz around the biggest game in America’s biggest sport is, as always, about more than football. Even as high-minded a publication as The Economist gets caught up every so often in the connections between sports and business. Here’s what’s wrong with making analogies between sports and business.

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Sports Comparison Talent Nonprofit 70

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2017

Ask any sports fan about their favorite team and they will usually spend half the time either cursing or extolling the manager. Apparently, the manager is responsible for every loss, and perhaps even the occasional victory. On the other hand, many people have an ingrained cynicism about the latest management thinking.

Management 132

Management Survey Study Data 132

Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2024

You might be wondering, “ Can I really start a consulting business or coaching practice while managing the chaos of raising young children?” Today, they’re 21 and 23, and I can proudly say I didn’t miss a single school play, sports event, or bedtime story. ” The answer is yes.

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Consulting How To System Efficiency 156

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with businesses in an industry whose customers already self-identify as fans: sports. For billions of people around the world, sports are a matter of passion, touching lives by offering a depth of human engagement unparalleled in other activities. In sports, every second matters.

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Sports Industry Data Media 70

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

Industry 130

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 130

Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

If you’re in law enforcement or emergency management, I highly recommend the listen. Prioritization / Triage – ranking and managing various problems by severity and urgency. My proposal to the ICS/NIMS administrators is to adopt a foundation of problem-solving strategy or risk management. Tune in here. Incident Command.

Management 106

Management System Guidelines Fashion 106

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. As a manager, you can ask teams to collaborate. I had the phone.

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Management Agile Metrics Video 92

Management Consulted

JULY 9, 2019

While MBB means men’s basketball to many avid sports fans, those in the consulting world know the acronym also stands for the holy grail of consulting firms: McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, and Bain. The post MBB Firms appeared first on Management Consulted. The MBB consulting firms are commonly ranked … Continue Reading.

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Boston Consulting Group Bain Sports McKinsey 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

But social media managers face innumerable possibilities for posting content. For example, a social media manager tasked with posting 10 stories in a day and with a budget to promote four of those stories can schedule the sequence of social media posts in over 7 trillion ways. Specifically, content posted in the morning attracted 8.8%

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Media Study Advertising Sports 132

CaseInterview.com

JANUARY 30, 2023

In sports like tennis, golf, and baseball, there’s the concept of a “sweet spot.” ” These sports involve swinging a racquet, club, or bat at a ball. If you’ve ever played any of these sports, you know what I’m talking about. Now, with any sport or career endeavor, it is absolutely possible to practice and improve.

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Sports Energy Travel Efficiency 96

Harvard Business

MAY 14, 2018

Thomas Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at the Kellogg School of Management, “Potent networks are not forged through casual interactions but through relatively high-stakes activities that connect you with diverse others.” According to Brian Uzzi, sociologist, network scientist, and Richard L.

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Sports Meeting Nonprofit Study 153

LSA Global

APRIL 21, 2025

Sales Pipeline Discipline and Time Management We know from sales strategy feedback that sales success is about sales activity and sales focus. Collaboration Across Functions In most B2B sales environments, selling is a team sport.

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Sales Balance Sheet B2B Training 62

Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The “All Blacks,” New Zealand’s rugby team, is arguably the most successful sports team in history. A new management team under Graham Henry began to rebuild the world's most successful sports team with a culture emphasizing individual character and personal leadership. However, something went wrong in 2003.

How To 124

How To Sports Engineering Training 124

Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

The biggest stressor for self-employed management consultants is business development: how to cultivate meaningful regular work. Second, when knee-deep in projects and facing deadlines, consultants are hard-pressed to find time to publish thought-leadership articles or create, launch, and manage marketing campaigns.

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Development Consulting Real Estate Sports 199

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Also, I’m doing my first in the new series of monthly webinars on brand management for professional service firms. It is going to be expensive to watch sports : Paying the full price is likely to change people’s habits. That’s What Watching Sports on TV is Going to Become! Check out the growing Dave shop. The podcast.

Sports 52

Sports Marketing Journal Groups 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In 1968, The Ohio State Buckeyes football team started one of the most cherished traditions in American sports. Although leaders are concerned with collective success, most organizations—from sports teams to universities to global companies—still focus on rewarding individual performance.

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Sports Groups Construction Research 134

Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2014

I managed a group of 17 brand ambassadors executing an “in-field” activation/marketing campaign for an IMG client, Wrigley Canada (chewing gum). It was an incredible experience and some of the best weeks of my life to this point; however, it taught me that I did not want to work in event management. November 2013: Received offer.

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Consulting Interviews Recruitment Recruiting 204

Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Bottom-line, most companies and managers want employee engagement. To use these approaches and succeed as leaders, managers need to change. Leadership today is a high contact sport which leads to employee ownership, buy-in, commitment and motivation. This is often uncomfortable for managers to do because they lack people skills.

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eBook Video Leadership Training 113

Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. Workers with great managers tend to perform well and experience higher positive affect.

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McKinsey Sports Ethics Leadership 98

Kates Kesler

JUNE 29, 2020

For a simple comparison, consider this sports team analogy. In team sports, measuring vital, non-point metrics and de-emphasizing individual metrics is not a new concept. Historically, P&L’s attached to each line of business (LOB) led to siloed offerings that focused management energy on individual profit targets.

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Metrics Sports Enterprise Comparison 100

Consulting Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

Lee is not just a great leader; he also turned his leadership success into a highly profitable leadership and management training business, so he's got some best practices on how he stands out in the market and wins clients. In this episode, you'll hear: How Lee evolved as a leader by shedding defensiveness and operating in trust. "As

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Operations Leadership Hotels Sports 156

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2017

Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. For example, advanced image recognition can be used to track the position of brand logos that appear in video footage of a sporting event, such as a basketball game. Drone- and satellite-based asset management. This will no doubt have profound effects on the workplace. Related Video.

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Company Software Data Sports 134

Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Second, when knee-deep in actually doing "the real work," solopreneurs are hard-pressed to find time to publish thought-leadership articles or create and manage marketing campaigns. First, solopreneurs are experts who are good at helping clients solve problems or achieve certain goals, but they are not usually trained in sales or marketing.

Development 195

Development Real Estate Sales Sports 195

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Throughout the consulting career recruiting process, I found it memorable that in both informal conversations and formal presentations, the issue of personal life management did occur as a poignant topic of conversation. Those that did were nearly all parents or were expecting a child. Communicate the Unpredictability of Consulting.

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Consulting Management Consulting Lifestyle Sports 60

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

When researchers scanned the brains of 17 superagers, they found unusually large amounts of activity in parts of the brain tied to emotional functioning, including communication, stress management, and sensory coordination. The most common pursuit was a sport or a physical activity (38% of people).

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Survey Report Nonprofit Sports 134

Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2017

Many managers miss or underestimate the potential harm to high performers from their teams. Often with good intentions, managers set up high performers as targets for sabotage, aggression, and exclusion. First, managers can address peer concerns that high performers threaten their welfare and resources.

Comparison 136

Comparison Resources Study Groups 136

Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2018

So the four-minute barrier stood for decades—and when it fell, the circumstances defied the confident predictions of the best minds in the sport. The experts believed they knew the precise conditions under which the mark would fall. It would have to be in perfect weather—68 degrees and no wind.

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Benchmarking Sports Engineering Leadership 195

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This 2×2 will help your company navigate Beijing’s priorities and political sensitivities.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Company 181

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it.

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Cash Flow Company Management Industry 132

Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

When asked why Netflix has no plans to add live sports, he explained: We’re not trying to meet all needs. And if you were to bet on which firms would manage to thrive alongside the giants, you could do worse than picking ones like Netflix, where the CEO is thinking hard about trade-offs and differentiation. Meet all needs.

Company 130

Company Retail Sports Meeting 130

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Think about your work life, family life, or sporting activities. Who is the person that will ensure quality work, home cooked meals, or sporting victory? Management Consulting. Who are the linchpins in your world? Who do you want on your team? Graduate Consulting Group. Categories. Select Category. Business Frameworks.

Consulting 107

Consulting Sports Case Interview Energy 107

Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

Some recent projects include issues such as global energy solutions and large international sporting events. The firm’s main capabilities include: actuarial, business & organization transformation, digital, marketing and sales, operations & technology, risk management, and strategy & value sourcing.

Oliver Wyman 160

Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Real Estate 160