Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

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! (What Brand Codes do we use?) This is kind of the crux of the webinar from yesterday, but I’ve learned you can’t share an important message enough. What does this mean?

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In the last 18 months working with some of the world’s biggest sports brands, I’ve done research that has taught me the importance of market research to build strong brands and grow sales. Sports teams have some of the best brand codes around. My favorite mug…do you know the team? I bet you might?! You codify everything.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 20, 2024

After achieving early success, how should the founders continue to build value for their soccer franchise?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2023

With accurate player-availability predictions for all active players, AI-powered decision-making is dramatically improved around three dimensions: 1) Risk management: If a productive wide-receiver is likely to get hurt, for example, a team might invest more in talented backups, to minimize drop-off in team performance during injury.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

A few of the things that stuck with me as I went back through the recording and my notes: The correct question right now is about “relevance” : It isn’t whether or not arts/culture/entertainment/sports is dying, but it is about relevance. ” That’s the First Question for the Arts/Sports/Entertainment Businesses?

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Martinka Consulting

MAY 29, 2019

This is not about sports, but it’s based on the April 5, 2019 Wall Street Journal’s sports page, which had an article about former UCLA and NBA player Earl Watson and his goal to coach college basketball, preferably at his alma mater. The post When Sports, Kids, and Relationships Collide appeared first on Martinka Consulting.

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2018

Sports are exciting because of upsets. The post Predicting Business Success and Sports Drafts – A Crapshoot appeared first on Martinka Consulting. No matter how good someone is, they’re going to take their time, do multiple interviews, and thoroughly vet everybody. He never seemed to get this. It’s hard to predict results.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Ed Stack, the chief executive of Dick’s Sporting Goods, decided after the Parkland school shooting to pull assault rifles and high-capacity magazines from all of his company’s stores. The controversial choice hurt revenues.

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Think high-profile consumer goods, and sports apparel comes quickly to mind. For the last few years, the world's fastest-growing major sports apparel enterprise has been Adidas. The CEO overseeing Adidas's flourishing is Kasper Rørsted, a man who spent the first half of his career in the tech industry.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Every year, we spend more than a trillion dollars worth of time and attention on organized spectator sports. The half-life of a sporting event is incredibly short. It turns out that this insignificance and the ephemeral nature of sporting events is the heart of their appeal. Soccer hooligans are a real problem.

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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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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Canadian rugby legend Maria Samson talks about her experiences in leadership, advocating for women in sports, breaking down barriers, and fostering inclusion.

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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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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Often, when I’m asked to give a speech on strategy at some company event or conference, I find that one of the other speakers is a former professional sports player. Although there is nothing wrong with commitment and perseverance, I, however, think sport (much less war) is often an unhelpful analogy.

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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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Chad Barr

AUGUST 28, 2024

It highlighted how sport climbing athletes are using motion-sensor suits to gather crucial data, allowing them to tailor their training with precision. In business, as in sports, data is not just numbers; it’s a roadmap to success. ” This applies to business as much as it does to sports. Take Amazon, for example.

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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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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 27, 2015

In the NFL, and other pro sports, the league has a salary cap that teams must adhere to. The post Socialism May Work in Sports but Not in Business appeared first on Martinka Consulting. It’s to promote parity and it’s worked. Over the last 10 years only five of the 32 teams have a cumulative winning percentage of.600 600 or higher.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The authors present an updated approach that has generated positive outcomes in military, business, and sports contexts. The framework, known as VUCA, has been widely discussed and adopted since, but it turns out to be better at describing what successful leaders do than teaching all leaders how to succeed.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Decarbonization efforts across various sectors have affected the car industry tremendously — especially sports car manufacturers. At Porsche, efforts such as the development of the electric Taycan in 2019 have begun to disrupt a “petrol head” culture enamored with the Porsche’s traditional, distinctive flat-six engine.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Now, spatial computing is already starting to make an impact, including on communication and co-presence, manufacturing, gaming, human resources, media, sports and entertainment, and data visualization. Apple’s entrance into the market is a big step for the technology, but the idea has been in development for years.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

How the sports legend and civil rights icon made decisions throughout his career to leave a lasting impact on the world.

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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.

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Alan Weiss

JULY 1, 2024

They didn’t try to breed faster horses, but horses were simply used for different purposes and are very much a part of our lives today: recreation, sports, transportation, and so forth. Yet the pony express stopped delivering messages when the telegraph and telephone and trains entered society.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 28, 2022

We worked through her brand positioning as a consultant to the sports industry who transformed front-line teams into brand ambassadors, which made logical sense given her experience working for the Red Sox, Dodgers, and the Cubs. I was Jahaan's first business mentor when she started her business. That's exactly what she does today!

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Simon Associates

JANUARY 4, 2023

That's right: six women officials (including Kathryn Nesbitt of the US) worked this year's tournament, the most-watched international sporting event on the planet.

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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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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Yesterday at Advertising Week in New York City, MLB, NBA, and NFL executives shared their thoughts on the evolution of customer engagement in major league sports and why they’re experimenting with new technologies from live video to virtual reality. Kids learn about sports differently today,” commented Dawn Hudson, CMO of the NFL.

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Simon Associates

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In 1973, she became the athletic director of women’s sports at the University of Iowa, one of the first women in the country to hold this title. (In In those days, there were two athletic directors: one for male athletes and one for female.).

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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Prior to the Super Bowl last Sunday, you couldn’t pick up a sports section without reading about the duel between Tom Brady, the greatest quarterback of all time, and Patrick Mahomes, the best quarterback in the game today.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Having worked with numerous high level sports’ teams I know coaches would rather have this information than not have it at all. The post Sports & StrengthsFinder – Using Strengths to Build Strong Teams appeared first on Leadership Vision Consulting. There is no formula that will guide you exactly how to do this.

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Simon Associates

MAY 19, 2022

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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 MBB consulting firms are commonly ranked … Continue Reading. The post MBB Firms appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 31, 2024

Performance and Resilience Through Music Outside of high-school band, where we competed in marketing and concert competitions, and a brief stint in little league baseball as a child (Marquette Park T-Ball and Gage Park Little League), I have not participated much in group sports. Journal of science and medicine in sport, 15 1, 52–7.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Ted Lasso: An Empathetic Leadership Paradigm The Apple TV series Ted Lasso exemplifies empathetic leadership, contrasting with traditional coercive methods in sports. In my experiences, I’ve observed leadership styles from aggressive sports often replicated in corporate settings. People felt threatened.

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Simon Associates

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This put a woman squarely in the arena of what has traditionally been a men-only sport. Talk about a glass ceiling being smashed!

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Non-baseball fans often say they don’t like the game because something’s not happening “all the time.” ” Baseball fans love the multi-levels of strategy. If you’re partial to the up and down of basketball or soccer, the down times between strategy implementation (the action) may seem slow.

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