Football can teach businesses about strategy in three key ways. First, teams draft players based on their potential to fill roles and achieve long-term objectives, rather than just experience. Second, teams focus on continued growth in existing strengths and maximizing opportunities. Third, teams plan, prepare, review strategies together to ensure mutual understanding and focus when executing their roles.

1. what can FOOTBALL teach us about business strategy?

2. every COMPANY in every INDUSTRY wants to WIN the game against their COMPETITON

3. we already love this game :: what can we learn from it?

4. the game of FOOTBALL has a lot to offer business :: formula for success STRUCTURE roles & relationships

5. and actually, FOOTBALL is more like the WORKPLACE than we might think both have meeting rooms

6. both celebrate

7. both have an organizational structure

8. both have changed over the years

9. so how can Sunday afternoon inform Monday morning? let’s look at the core strategy for winning games

10. football does it by drafting the right PEOPLE for the right ROLES based on POTENTIAL maybe more than experience to ACHIEVE the long term objectives of the team

11. followed by training forGROWTH in existing areas of STRENGTH always with a focus on the best OPPORTUNITY for team success and achievement of desired OUTCOMES

12. taking time to plan prepare review STRATEGY for MUTUAL understanding and FOCUS

13. so when out in the world doing the job every day

14. the OFFENSIVE team will take charge of scoring making sales and moving the organization FORWARD

15. and the DEFENSIVE team will push back strong competitive forces as the PROTECTOR of organizational achievement

16. but wait, there is more… for all high achieving teams winning is also about BALANCE

17. and winning is about INTER-DEPENDENCE so when it’s our turn to sit on the sidelines we can have CONFIDENCE our team mates will fulfill their role to the maximum POTENTIAL

18. and finally, to truly adopt a football philosophy that will enhance our business strategy we must commit to LEARN from those who’ve been playing the game longer

19. and BELIEVE that on any given game daywe can walk away, having contributed to something great something that will inspire us to strive higher the next time we play the game

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