RP1966 (10/29/2014)
Andrew..Peterson (10/28/2014)
What I find interesting is that many in business love to watch sports, where the players are as critical to the team as the manager/coach. But once back in business, they think the players are less important than the managers.That one always amuses me. A lot of what applies to getting a football (by which I mean soccer for those in the US) team's specialist roles to gel into a functional unit can apply to any group of specialists and the relative importance of player and manager is also worthy of note.
Some people don't seem to be able to abstract the principles from one scenario to the other, but mostly they don't want to as it doesn't fit with the dominant business mindset in most companies.
This reminds me of the crossover period between amateur and professional sports i.e. the clubs started making money and did so as commercial entities whilst treating players as assets but still expected loyalty from the players and also expecting them to not hunt the money themselves.
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!