Greetings from a lurker!
Per the assumption:
>2. Sports teams always play for short terms. Businesses have a 20 or 30
>year survival concern and executive reputations rise and fall on how well
>the organization prepares for what might be called "an entirely new game".
>This is not a big concern in sports.
Businesses often play the game and not the season...although they will
_say_ they are in it for the long term and _act_ as if the game were the
end-all. The sport analogies get old. It's amazing how they relate so
little and so much to reality.
Laura Bierema
Laura L. Bierema 517-432-2798 (office)
Michigan State University 517-355-7656 (fax)
School of Labor & Industrial Relations bierema@pilot.msu.edu
Human Resources Education & Training Center
425 South Kedzie Hall
East Lansing MI 48824
--Laura Bierema <bierema@pilot.msu.edu>
Learning-org -- Hosted by Rick Karash <rkarash@karash.com> Public Dialog on Learning Organizations -- <http://www.learning-org.com>