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What businesses can learn from teamwork at the World Cup
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The Sports Of The Business World
Organizational and corporate performance is often likened to sports metaphors, as both share similar factors like leadership, communication, teamwork and achieving a certain goal.
Teamwork, and positive relationship between the team contributes to success, as various studies of football and the olympic teams have proved. The team bonding ensures unity and trust, resulting in better results.
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Sports And Business: Shared Goals
Individual performance is generally considered important, but if the goal is shared, and the entire team is having the same objective, then one person cannot be bigger than the team.
This corporate lesson taken from sports provides humility to the individual star performer, who has to work for the team, and not for selfish reasons.
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Sports And Business: Resiliency
Successful athletes and teams demonstrate the trait of resilience, and is supported by five psychosocial principles that guide the team towards excellence: Transformational leadership, shared team leadership, learnings, social identity and happy emotions.
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Why We Love Sports
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- Sports carry self-esteem benefits.
- Commercial reasons (money bets etc.).
- Peer pressure of being part of their group.
- Sports are exciting.
- Sports is an aesthetically pleasing activity.
- A venue for emotional expression.
- Sports is an escape from real-world problems.
- Sports provide a sense of connectedness and belonging.
Explaining Sports Appeal
- Talent-Luck Theory: Sports appeals to a lot of people due to its ability to balance skill with randomness.
- Mirror Neurons: Many fans are able to feel what the player is feeling, and experience the excitement first-hand in his mind, with no barrier between the self and the outside world.
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The First-Ever Football World Cup
A thirteen-nation tournament took place in July 1930, in a series of 18 matches to form the first-ever International Football World Cup. This happened in Uruguay, and the home team were also crowne...
Uruguay: The Hosts
A country in South America, Uruguay, host and winners of the first world cup were a great economy before the 1930s depression era. They had won the Paris Olympics 1924 and also the Amsterdam Olympics in 1928.
The Arena
The first World Cup was played in the capital Montevideo at three different stadiums, with the final match at Estadio Centenario with over 90000 people watching.
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You're Responsible For The Outcome
When you play tennis, you're really competing with yourself. You're perpetually trying to improve: to hit shots faster, improve placement, surprise your opponent, make your footwork more efficient ...
You Must Be Hyperaware Of Yourself
Becoming a great tennis player is similar to being an excellent professional, you're constantly analyzing your weaknesses and strengths, and adjusting your game.
You can sabotage yourself by getting frustrated or being defeatist. Learning how to precisely manage yourself, and to stay calm and to dig deep in high pressure, high stakes situations can turn the tide of a match and a career.
You'll Fail Often
Great tennis players are unfazed by failure in the moment, they wait until the match is over to let emotions set in.
Getting accustomed to failure and learning how to handle it well is what success is built upon.