HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)
by Harvard Business Review, Sir Alex Ferguson, Bill Parcells, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Joe Girardi
Looking Past Performance in Your Star Talent
by Mark de Rond, Adrian Moorhouse, and Matt Rogan
THE NBA DRAFT has, since 1950, been the means of bringing the cream of college basketball talent into the professional ranks. Pro teams take views and stake fortunes on those college kids most likely to step up successfully.
In 1998, Briton Michael Olowokandi was first pick, drafted to the L.A. Clippers. His selection was big news, not because the soccer-obsessed Britons had finally produced a basketball talent, but because he had only been playing the game for five years, since 1993. Although Olowokandi had only played basketball in the U.K. for two years before his freshman year, coaches at the University of the Pacific were intrigued by his seven-foot ...