Where Did Our Talent Go?
11 February 2011
Lane4 Commercial Director Matt Rogan and Managing Director Adrian Moorhouse have collaborated with Dr Mark de Rond (a Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge University based ethnographer) in this Harvard Business Review blogpost.
American tennis failed yet again at the last global tournament, the Australian Open. The nation that once dominated world tennis did not secure a single qualifier into the second week of either male or female singles Australian Open events.
Godfather of American tennis talent Nick Bollettieri has said, "What's wrong with American tennis today is that we're fighting against the world." Not true. What's wrong with it is the belief that what worked in 1990 will work today. American kids are no longer prepared to endure misery and Bollettieri's "command and control" approach (which Andre Agassi described as "hell" in his autobiography) for a modest chance of glory. The journey has to be fun, too.
So what does this mean for business leaders?
To read this HBR Blog article in full, please click here.
2011-02-11