The Winning Way 2.0 Learnings from Sport for Managers by Anita Bhogle & Harsha Bhogle

Author:Anita Bhogle & Harsha Bhogle [Bhogle, Anita & Bhogle, Harsha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Westland
Published: 2017-07-02T16:00:00+00:00

Symptoms of Losing Teams

•Bureaucratic; delaying decisions.

•Egos, internal competition, group-ism.

•Getting credit more important than getting the job done.

•Lack of focus, energies spread thin.

•Not enough back-up plans.

•The same few people perform, no new people or ideas.

•Too many or too few processes.

•Crab mentality.

•Blaming others or the environment for failure.

•Weighed down by past failure.

Change

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

—Charles Darwin

‘If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near,’ wrote Jack Welch.1 Great line! If your consumers are changing faster than the products you can deliver to them, you run the risk of becoming irrelevant. Cricket might have gone down that path if it had continued to offer only Test cricket to a generation that spends a lot of time and energy comparing the speed of gadgets!

Indeed as we know, England’s limited-overs cricket team almost became an illustration of Welch’s line through their performance at the ICC World Cup 2015 by putting on a performance that was so dated that it seemed like they were playing in black and white! The rate of change outside England cricket was rapid. Within English cricket the air was static and carried the odour of a bygone era. When they changed, they came back contemporary, exciting and unrecognizable.

Apart from the industrial revolution, the last three decades have probably witnessed more change than ever before. Dhirubhai Ambani’s dream of making a phone call cheaper than a post card has come true. We can now get by without ever going to the bank or the ticketing office or even carrying cash. We are transferring money on mobile phones. We are in touch with hundreds of friends on Facebook but can’t remember their contact numbers or birthdays. It’s a changed life, for better or worse. The world has come closer and yet people have grown apart.

The technological revolution, with its cheap and easy connectivity, has contributed to opening up global opportunities and access to unfamiliar consumer segments. This has changed the balance of power in favour of developing economies. The consumer revolution has been further strengthened by the retail revolution. This has meant changing equations between manufacturers and retailers.

Slowly but steadily, a sports revolution too took root in a country largely seen as a poor, third world nation with no imprint whatsoever on the international sports scene. While cricket is still the only team sport where we count at an international level, at an individual level we have world champions in shooting, boxing, chess, badminton, tennis and wrestling. We now have seeded golfers and athletes and a home-grown kabaddi league has taken off. There is much anticipation surrounding the football league, the hockey league has been a pioneer of sorts and even badminton is paying its players decent money.

Amidst all these changing dynamics, whether or not you can adapt has become a prime determinant of whether or not you can succeed. Over the last few years

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