sport & selling

There’s an American uni women’s basketball side on a 108-game winning streak. Their coach hit transatlantic airwaves given a key element of this success [http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/03/geno-auriemma-uconn-ncaa-tournament-2] being attributed to spotting the obvious body language of players. Picked up in part due to a

The footballing nation and beyond is having their say on the brutal sacking of Claudio Ranieri. Whether you have close interest in this or not, the thoughts of the team’s former performance psychologist are fascinating. Ken Way was shown the door once the fairytale title was won. Claudio, it

This week it is not just red blooded sport billys talking about football. Everyone it seems, has an opinion on the monopolist Thai-owned Leicester City sacking of 5,000-1 title winning boss Claudio Ranieri. Universally (almost) thought to be a disgrace. Dilly ding dilly gone. From Jose Mourinho to Eddie

Serie A’s Napoli are through to the Spring knockout rounds as group stage winners in this season’s Champions League. They are currently coached by someone who clearly values preparation. Maurizio Sarri came through the amateur ranks and so perhaps holds higher gratitude for his career than contemporaries. His

The miracle worker that is the Australian-Japanese rugby coach, Eddie Jones. For the first time, England have gone an entire calendar year not simply unbeaten, but victorious all the way. Thirteen wins on the bounce. More startling still when you consider that prior to his reign, England didn’t even

Yes yes. I know there are sales leaders who purposely ignore the ways of sport teams. They cite the false allure of a passing management fad, the implausibility of a workplace world championship calling and the wild imbalanced reversal in the ratio of Training to Doing. When they learn the

St George’s Park. Gleaming new tech-colossus/Bond-villain-liar style (delete as appropriate) HQ of English football. Greg Dyke. A man “successful” in telly administration? He proved fish out of water running infamous meddlers, sporting body The Football Association. He thought it a good idea to place a particular clock on

The Rio Olympics. Team GB win women’s hockey Gold. I avidly watched the entirety of their knock-out matches. Forget the fact that in both semi and final, vanquished opponents Kiwi then Dutch had all the play. Our girls never knew they were beaten. An incredible belief coursed through their

The vaunted “marginal gains” philosophy pioneered by all-conquering British cyclists once more produces peak performance in Olympic arenas. Continuous improvement has moved far beyond American-reject fed Japanese total quality management to underpin stellar sport success. At every turn during the Rio Games, there’s a story of how such forensic