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...younger guys aren’t going to wait a few years to start seeing success, because we have the talent to make a big impact in the league this year,” Bienvenu said...
...winners win and losers lose? The key is neither talent nor money but rather attitude, writes Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter in her latest book, Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End. Kanter pulls case studies from business, sports and politics, including extended inside looks at Gillette, Continental Airlines and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Her conclusion is that winning organizations--from NFL franchises to FORTUNE 500 companies--share three core characteristics: they instill accountability at all levels, cultivate collaboration and teamwork and encourage initiative and innovation. With illustrative examples, Kanter lays out how to overcome...
Most people think of scouting as the ability to recognize talent. This--it turns out--is relatively easy. Good basketball players are usually quite tall, quite fast and quite adept at shooting a basketball. The difficult part in a world of 6 billion people is actually finding those who are tall, fast and coordinated, and the extremely difficult part is finding them before the competition does. Ronzone has conquered this problem despite his afflicted tongue by building a global network of coaches, journalists and friends who tip him off to the location of the world's most gifted young players...
MANN: The United States, for a very long time, thought it could get by by being pretty good at everything it does. An athlete with great talent who doesn't train is ultimately going to be caught by somebody who has less talent but better training. We don't get to make the globalization choice. We do get to make the choice about whether or not we change...
Despite the powerful influence of Chaplin and other great silent film stars, Marceau says he originally aspired to become a speaking actor. When Decroux recognized Marceau’s talent for mime in 1946, his plans changed...