Soccer Thinking for Management Success: Lessons for organizations from the world's game - Softcover

Loge, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785357549 ISBN 13: 9781785357541

Verlag: John Hunt Publishing, 2018

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The modern world is networked and always working. Organizations no longer have the luxury of time. Expertise is no longer confined to a couple of smart guys in corner offices, reviewing information to which only they have access and issuing instructions through layers of middle-men to nine-to-fivers who carry out the dictates and feed paper back up the chain, awaiting the next set of instructions. Today’s successful organization is decentralized and never stops moving. In fact, organizational success is a lot like soccer. Every player is both a specialist and generalist. Responsibility on the field is distributed, and everyone on the team works for everyone else. Communication among players is constant. Soccer is 90 minutes of systems thinking in action. Soccer Thinking for Management Success is by a soccer fan and player who has spent a career building and running teams and organizations. He draws on insights from leaders, known and not-so-well-known who use soccer thinking to succeed. This is not just another book on how to be a great leader by a famous person. This is a management and leadership book by, and for, the rest of us.

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A respected strategic consultant, over the past two decades Peter Loge has worked with everyone from "America's Funniest Home Videos" and the American Farmland Trust, to WickedCoolStuff.com and the World Wildlife Fund. He holds degrees from Emerson College, Syracuse University, and Arizona State University, and is an Associate Fellow of Timothy Dwight College at Yale University. www.peterloge.com

A respected strategic consultant, over the past two decades Peter Loge has worked with everyone from "America's Funniest Home Videos" and the American Farmland Trust, to WickedCoolStuff.com and the World Wildlife Fund. He holds degrees from Emerson College, Syracuse University, and Arizona State University, and is an Associate Fellow of Timothy Dwight College at Yale University. www.peterloge.com

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Soccer Thinking for Management Success

By Peter Loge

John Hunt Publishing Ltd.

Copyright © 2017 Peter Loge
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-78535-754-1

Contents

Acknowledgements, 
Foreword, 
Introduction, 
Chapter 1: It Takes a Team, 
Chapter 2: Total Football, 
Chapter 3: Know the System, Play Your Role, 
Chapter 4: Soccer Fields Are Loud, 
Chapter 5: Know when to Run, When to Walk and When to Rest, 
Chapter 6: Where the Ball Isn't, 
Chapter 7: An Organization is a Team, Not a Family, 
Chapter 8: Manage Your Strengths and Weaknesses, 
Chapter 9: Respect, Competition, Cooperation, 
Chapter 10: Goals, 
Chapter 11: The Limits of Under-Dogdem and Over-Dogdem, 
Chapter 12: Failure and Fame Are Fleeting, 
Chapter 13: Don't Just Do Something, Sit There, 
Chapter 14: Get Fit along the Way, 
Chapter 15: Referees Keep the Game Going, 
Chapter 16: Advice for Managers, 
Chapter 17: Advice for Staff, 
Chapter 18: Added Time, 
List of Interviews, 
References, 
Further Reading, 

CHAPTER 1

It Takes a Team

A soccer team is a system made up of 11 parts that interact to ensure the success of the whole. Modern organizations are also systems made up of staff and managers working together for a shared goal.

Always play for your team, never for yourself or for the amusement of the spectators. Hubert Vogelsinger, How to Star in Soccer

Venture capital firms invest in teams, so you need to be a team worth investing in. Danny Karbassiyoon, Co-Founder and Product Lead, SWOL/Fury90, former Arsenal player

A team is a system in which each part works with, and for, the other parts.

Successful soccer teams are not collections of superstars who do not pass the ball or players who show flashes of brilliance but who are otherwise unreliable. Successful soccer teams are groups in which skilled players are in their best positions and who work together as a single unit toward a shared goal. In 2016 a team in England called Leicester City – which barely survived being demoted to a lower division at the end of the 2014/2015 season – beat 5,000 to one odds to finish as the best team in England. When Leicester's star was playing semi-professional soccer a few years before winning it all, second-place Arsenal players were winning the World Cup. In the same season the talent-stacked Chelsea, defending Premier League champion with a payroll of roughly $310 million, finished 10th, not much better than Bournemouth – a team that had a payroll of roughly $38 million and which spent much of its 70-year history in the third division of English soccer. Leicester and Bournemouth (and Arsenal) did well in part because they were teams, not just collections of expensive stars. They moved as a unit, worked for each other, and were fully committed to the system and goal. Chelsea did poorly in part because the team's stars did not work together, for each other, or for their manager, Jose Mourinho. Before he was fired midseason, Mourinho (who calls himself "the special one") publicly criticized his players for betraying him. One of his players – on international television – threw a shirt at Mourhino; the shirt fell just short of its target, summing up the team's season.

... teamwork is the most striking thing about the side, and has enabled them to possess that most valuable commodity in the Championship [England's second division] – winning while playing badly.– ESPN FC on Brighton, which had just won promotion to the top division in England from the second-tier Championship division

My local team, DC United, has historically had among the lowest payrolls in Major League Soccer. Unlike virtually every other team in the league, as of 2017 DC United has had no stars from the top leagues in Europe and it has been a while since DC United players were regular starters for the US Men's National Team. For at least a decade it has been a collection of hardworking and solid players from around MLS and some young talent coming up through the system. Yet the team regularly advances in the playoffs, spends time at or near the top of the league standings, and Ben Olsen was Coach of the Year in 2014. In the second decade of the 21st century DC United was usually known for being hard-working, not having a lot of flash, and being hard to beat.

The best way to win is to play football where everybody expresses his talent. What is marvelous in this game ... nobody has all the qualities, but in a team sport what is very interesting is to develop the strong qualities of each player and to put a harmony [on top] and put that to work together and then be efficient as a unit. What is marvelous in the game is 1+1+1 is more than 11. When you manage to do that, you have built a team. That will be a team with style because everybody expresses his qualities. And that will be a team that is efficient because everybody brings his best to the unit. Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger, Arseblog

The same principal of teamwork beating freelancing stars at the very top level is also true of casual weekend pickup games and local rec league play. Everyone wants to be on a team that wins, but no one wants a teammate who won't pass the ball or defend. People want to play on teams that behave like teams – teams that ensure everyone is involved in the play, teams on which everyone works as hard on defense as they do at scoring, teams that recognize everyone has to take a turn playing goalkeeper if need be. If stars do not involve other players, other players stop involving the stars. The predicable result is that the team loses.

There are occasions when you have to ask yourself whether certain players are affecting the dressing-room atmosphere, the performance of the team, and your control of the players and staff. If they are, you have to cut the cord. There is absolutely no other way. It doesn't matter if the person is the best player in the world. The long-term view of the club is more important than any individual ...

Sir Alex Ferguson, former head coach of Manchester United, "Ferguson's Forumula"

The best organizational teams, like the best soccer teams, are made up of people who work with and for each other. A former senior leader at an international health system explains the importance of teams in operating rooms and hospitals in general: To ensure the safety of the patient, everyone in the operating room needs to know what they are supposed to do and do it well – and they also have to know what everyone else is doing and why so they can adjust as necessary. This is true beyond the operating room and extends to the entire hospital – in one of the places in which she worked the CEO knew everyone's name and their contribution to the organization's success, from senior administrator to maintenance staff. One result was that the organization ran as a team with everyone working together. She contrasted this to a hospital she was sent to help improve in which "if the CEO knew a dozen people's names I'd be surprised." The CEO not only didn't know the names and roles of those on whom the hospital's success relied, he never even saw many of them – he took a private elevator from the garage to his office. In this system there were groups of individuals working individually, but they were not working together as a team. As a result the hospital was not doing well, and was never going to get better.

We have all worked at companies that put up with the staff...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Hunt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1785357549
• ISBN 13: 9781785357541
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
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