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For the past few weeks I am quite proud (or possibly embarrassed) to have been amongst the minority for I have neither seen any football, nor discussed any football, nor listened to any football. It is quite amazing though that when footie fever hits, even heathens like me seem to know what is going on and this is what I have picked up thus far:-

• The French don’t just restrict their strikes to blockading the ferries. Footballers like to strike to.
• Sending a team home economy class because they have lost creates nothing but bad publicity and is really just a bit of a poor joke.
• A leader who loses respect will inevitably end up with a rubbish team.
• A leader who is too dictatorial could end up with a team of adults behaving like children.
• Keeping players in the dark about what role they will play until just before they are needed will inevitably cause uncertainty and anxiety - which isn’t great if you want to win.
• We pathetic humans seem to celebrate more when a ‘big’ team gets kicked out than when a ‘small’ team wins ‘big’.
• Those teams that never made it to S Africa have been totally forgotten.
• Teams that have been classed as ‘no hopers’ have just as much of a chance to win when so many ‘top’ teams have not yet worked out how to work as a team.

I am sure that those of you who have watched the games have many more observations to make, but these are mine.

And one other sporting observation I have made this week is that those two tennis players (no, I haven’t a clue who they are as I don’t watch tennis either) who played for three solid days in all that heat and got to a tremendous score of 70 games to 68 in the final set have shown a resilience and determination the whole sporting and business world should admire. 

So what lessons for business and HR from this?

1. Leadership style has to be adapted to ensure it is appropriate for the situation
2. If leaders aren’t respected then their teams will inevitably fail
3. ‘Small; teams can play ‘big’ if they set their minds to it.
4. Resilience and determination can turn non entities into heroes.

I’m off to train for the Iron Man… LOL!

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