3/31/2024 0 Comments Tactics board soccer amazon![]() “Be like water…” - the famous quote from Bruce Lee can be much more readily applied to soccer than it can to football. view is deeply expressed in Ram Charan’s book, What the CEO Wants You to Know, where he suggests that CEOs want you to make decisions, especially decisions that save them time, and save money. ![]() (or in Europe) means that many people weigh-in on a decision or process. This is subjective, but based upon my exposure teamwork outside of the U.S. For business and culture, I think the “backwards pass” can translate into the mechanisms for decision-making and team work.In American football, to score, you have to move forward and even on defense to gain an advantage you have to limit forward progress, or take the ball completely. For a sport often measured in inches, or the even the tip-of-a-football, the ability for moving backward to gain a competitive scoring advantage is unfounded. ![]() “ Backwards Movements” – In soccer it’s common to pass the ball backwards as a means to either gain a better angle, a better potential outlet pass, to reverse field, or to create a better player alignment. working environments, I’ve often heard business referred to as a “kill it, eat it” atmosphere yet I’ve never heard any such comparisons while working in Europe and participating in various global forums. worker), and at times metaphorically violent. business culture can be quite aggressive (especially when coupled with the stress of fewer vacation days for the average U.S. For business and culture, in part, I think this means that U.S.For most from the U.S., for those without significant exposure to soccer especially, one of the first questions tends to be, “ Why don’t they toughen up?” or “ He barely touched him-why is he on the ground seemingly in pain (reference Nyemar’s acting memes here)?” In modern American football the license for toughness has only recently been renewed, for example via the “concussion protocol”. It wasn’t until 1828 when the sport developed rules governing violence. Physicality & Toughness – strangely enough (considering the sport’s modern “flop” culture) Fußball has its 13th century origins deeply rooted in extreme violence, where even death was a possibility. Here are some loosely formatted examples that I’ve experienced first-hand, as a “ transatlantean”: Along the way I’ve been able to observe how these differences are a fundamental part of culture beyond sport, which does play a role in creating shared mental models across large populations, and by nature these cultural frameworks inherently seep into business strategy and approaches. And since that moment, I have always made an effort to splice apart the differences between football and Fußball. In her expressed moments of astonishment, I was able to realize that although she was a lover of sport, she grew up participating-in and watching a very different sport: Fußball (soccer). Amidst the rules, formations, and athletic artistry that I was processing, her mind could only process the fact that very large grown men were running at very high speeds directly into each other! Seeing shudder after shudder spread across her face following each ‘block and tackle’, my own awareness did shift. One Sunday, I did invite a non-American colleague to Belushi’s to see my favorite team play its rival, and her immediate impression was one of shock at the sport’s violence. In Berlin one of the primary viewing venues was (and generally remains) Belushi’s. In 2010, the year I first moved to Germany, I did everything in my power to watch the NFL. football references are often met with blank stares from those unfamiliar with football, or even the inducement of violent visualization from those audiences that are familiar with the sport. citizen living in Germany for 6 of the past 8 years, and someone in regular conversation with people from around the world, when I hear these “blocking and tackling” references I’m conscious enough to know that U.S. football to describe business, I couldn’t help but think of how these references did (or did not) connect with their global audiences.įor example, have you ever been in a business conversation and have someone refer to business fundamentals, or a process, as “blocking and tackling”? As a transatlantic traveler, U.S. Considering this was in the midst of business travel, and several business calls-calls with Americans that sometimes made reference to U.S. During the first 10-days of World Cup 2018 I was able to travel over 10,000 miles (over 17,000 kilometers), and watch, from their home soil, 3 of the tournament’s most intriguing teams*.
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