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Leadership and management lessons from the sports world.
The world's elite athletes and coaches achieve high performance through inspiring leadership, mental toughness, and direction-setting strategic choices. Harvard Business Review has talked to many of these high performers throughout the years to learn how their success translates to the world of business.
If you read (or listen to) nothing else on management lessons from the world of sports, listen to these ten articles by athletes, coaches, and leadership experts. We've combed through our archive and selected the articles that will best help you drive performance.
This book will inspire you to improve on your weaknesses, not just your strengths; take care of your body for sustained mental performance; increase your confidence and manage your energy before an important event; turn a struggling team around; understand the limits of performance metrics; focus on long-term goals to overcome setbacks; and understand where the analogy of sports and business doesn't work.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer and a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee. Since retiring, he has been an actor and basketball coach and has authored six books for adults and three for children, including What Color Is My World?, which won the NAACP award for Best Children’s Book. In 2012, he was selected as a US cultural ambassador, and in 2016 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award which recognizes exceptional meritorious service.
Sir Alex Ferguson is a former Scottish player and manager of the Manchester United soccer club from 1986 to 2013. His time at the club has led to Ferguson being regarded as one of the most successful, admired, and respected managers in the history of the game. On May 8, 2013, Ferguson announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United. During his twenty-seven years at the club, he won thirty-eight trophies, including thirteen Premier Leagues and two UEFA Champions League titles.
Bill Parcells is a Hall of Fame football coach living in southern Florida. Nunyo Demasio is a reporter and feature writer who has written for the New York Daily News, New York Times, Washington Post, Seattle Times, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN: The Magazine.
About Amir Abdullah
Janina Edwards, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a native of Chicago and a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts acting program. Her 2016 performance of Voice of Freedom was a finalist for the Audie Award.