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Will AI Replace the Front Office in Pro Sports?

Harvard Business

2) Training and targeted interventions: If AI suggests a player is injury-prone, teams can target that player with customized training, nutrition, or other regimens to reduce the likelihood of injury. Alternatively, a team might choose to reduce a player’s workload, also reducing risk.

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How to Make Your Contacts Count with Vern Schellenger

Consulting Matters

Today, I am talking to Vern Schellenger, president of the premier networking training and coaching company Contacts Count. About the guest: Vern Schellenger is a master networker, career coach, sports junkie, and music lover. If so, don't worry; you are not alone! Vern is also the CEO of Contacts Counts.

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Creating Employee Engagement: 4 Methods That Work

Rick Conlow

In this leadership training video, Rick reveals four leadership skills to drive employee engagement. Leadership today is a high contact sport which leads to employee ownership, buy-in, commitment and motivation. Leadership today is a high contact sport which leads to employee ownership, buy-in, commitment and motivation.

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How to Build a Better Organization? Build Better People.

Markovitz Consulting

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. Train to Win. However, something went wrong in 2003.

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What Breaking the 4-Minute Mile Taught Us About the Limits of Conventional Thinking

Harvard Business

The British press “constantly ran stories criticizing his ‘lone wolf’ approach,” Bryant notes, and urged him to adopt a more conventional regimen of training and coaching. The experts believed they knew the precise conditions under which the mark would fall.

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Building a World-Class Personal Brand: Interview with Jahaan Blake

Consulting Matters

So, I’ve worked in sports my entire career. You started your own soccer training camp, you know, for all the younger kids in your high school to help them get to where you were. Betsy Jordyn : So, you keep talking about sports. So, this can be sports, hospitals, you know, it can be any different industry.

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8 Ways Machine Learning Is Improving Companies’ Work Processes

Harvard Business

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. Machine learning makes it possible to detect anomalies in the temperature of a train axel that indicate that it will freeze up in the next few hours.

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