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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)
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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
January 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
160 pages
3h 33m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Content preview from HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)

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 ...

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