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
Why There Is an I in Team
by Mark de Rond
The Old: There is no I in team.
The New: There is an I in team. And it matters.
The Challenge: To exploit individual qualities while mitigating the risks these same qualities entail.
GOOD SPELLING DOES NOT EQUAL deep thinking. Take that old devil, “there is no I in team.” When basketball star Michael Jordan, after a run of twenty straight points, snubbed Coach Tex Winter with, “there may not be an I in team, but there is in win,” he may have been onto something. A basketball team without superstars rarely makes it to the playoffs, let alone the finals. Such star players as Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Shaquille O’Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon, and LeBron James have consistently ...