“What is true is more powerful than what you believe, because what is true will give you an edge.” – Bill James I haven’t posted anything in more than six months. There’s no particular reason, really – just a combination…
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Truth vs Belief
Tagged with: belief, Bill James, Malcolm Gladwell, primary research, Revisionist History, The Numbers Game, The Pentagon's Brain, truth
Posted in Leadership, Marketing
Posted in Leadership, Marketing
Don’t overlook the quietly effective
“The best defenders are those who never tackle.” – Chris Anderson and David Sally, in The Numbers Game In 2001, Sir Alex Ferguson sold the Dutch international defender Jaap Stam to Lazio based in part on match data that showed Stam…
Tagged with: absence, Anne Treisman, Bobby Fischer, Chris Anderson, cognitive illusion, Curious George, Daniel Kahneman, David Sally, Eliot Hearst, Jaap Stam, Janet Souther, performance evaluations, presence, self-awareness, self-evaluation, Sir Alex Ferguson, The Numbers Game
Posted in Leadership, Management, Soccer
Posted in Leadership, Management, Soccer
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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