“For most of human history, the art of the hero wasn’t left up to chance; it was a multidisciplinary endeavor devoted to optimal nutrition, physical self-mastery, and mental conditioning. The hero’s skills were studied, practiced, and perfected, then passed along…
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Book Report: Natural Born Heroes
Tagged with: amygdala, Born to Run, Christopher McDougall, Crete, Crossfit, endurance, Eric Sykes, Erwan Le Corre, fascia, fat adaptation, fitness, Georges Hébert, guerrilla warfare, Natural Born Heroes, Parkour, Phil Maffetone, William Fairbairn, Wing Chun, World War 2
Posted in Books, Everything, Sports
Posted in Books, Everything, Sports
Book Report: The Only Rule Is It Has To Work
“This was the ugly part of the stats-vs.-tradition debate in baseball: Rather than a conversation about the best way to make baseball decisions, it had become an argument, in which it increasingly felt as if the purpose was to score…
Tagged with: analysis, analytics, availability heuristic, base rate fallacy, baseball, Ben Lindbergh, Bill James, clustering illusion, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, Dan Deeth, Dunning-Kruger effect, focalism, Kurt Russell, sabermetrics, Sam Miller, Sonoma Stompers, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, The Only Rule Is It Has To Work, The Tragically Hip, tradition
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science, Sports
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science, Sports
The Benefits of Repeatability
“If you don’t know what you are doing wrong, you can never know what you are doing right.” – Chen Xinhua Over the past few weeks, I’ve found myself talking at work about the benefits of repeatability and consistency. More…
Tagged with: Bounce, Chen Xinhua, consistency, creativity, feedback, just enough process, Matthew Syed, repeatability
Posted in Leadership, Management, Sports
Posted in Leadership, Management, Sports
Book Report: The Game of Our Lives
“The world that English football is now played in has changed again. The country is increasingly diverse; society is more individualized and more networked, and the economy has become an exemplar of a globalized and deregulated liberal model of capitalism.…
Tagged with: Adam Crozier, Anthony Crosland, David Goldblatt, economics, Sven-Göran Eriksson, The Game of Our Lives, The Secret Footballer, Vladimir Putin
Posted in Books, Everything, Soccer, Sports
Posted in Books, Everything, Soccer, Sports
Book Report: Soccer iQ Vol. 2
“I promised myself that I wouldn’t release a Volume 2 unless I cultivated enough quality content to truly justify its existence. I wasn’t going to throw together some rubbish and hope that the second volume would ride the coattails of…
Book Report: I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic
“I realized it had been tough. It had been hard. The person who was supposed to mean the most to me as a footballer had given me the cold shoulder completely, and that was worse than most stuff I’d been…
Tagged with: biography, David Lagercrantz, expertise, Fabio Capello, Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, Ruth Urbom, Simon Kuper, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Posted in Books, Everything, Soccer, Sports
Posted in Books, Everything, Soccer, Sports
How do you solve a weakest link?
“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.” – John Foster Dulles Today’s post examines your options if you find yourself managing…
Tagged with: Chris Anderson, coaching, David Sally, indispensability, John Foster Dulles, Kohler effect, motivation, O-Ring Theory, social comparison, team dynamics, teams, teamwork, termination, The Numbers Game, weakest-link, weaknesses
Posted in Books, Leadership, Management, Soccer, Sports
Posted in Books, Leadership, Management, Soccer, Sports
Book Report: The Numbers Game
“It is easy…to think of soccer as a game of superstars. They provide the glamour, the genius, the moments of inspiration. They sell the shirts and fill the seats. But they do not decide who wins games and who wins…
Tagged with: analytics, Andrew Friedman, Bill James, Bob Paisley, Boris Groysberg, Chris Anderson, conjunctive tasks, Daniel Kahneman, David Sally, Einstein, failure, Gabriele Marcotti, Gianluca Vialli, John Wooden, Kohler effect, Louis Van Gaal, Luca Toni, Malcolm Gladwell, Nathan Milstein, O-Ring Theory, Pep Guardiola, regression to the mean, Sepp Herberger, statistics, strongest-link, Tampa Bay Rays, team dynamics, The Extra 2%, The Numbers Game, Thomas Huxley, weakest-link, Zidane Clustering Theorem
Posted in Books, Management, Math and Science, Soccer, Sports
Posted in Books, Management, Math and Science, Soccer, Sports
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