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Finding the Perfect Price for your Service or Product
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| OK, you’ve got your service or product you want to sell, but how on earth do you work out what to charge? It’s not easy but we will attempt to give you a formula. We’ll use product as the generic term for what ever it is that you are selling. |
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In His Own Footsteps: The Early Years of Philip Knight
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| He might never have played pro sports or owned a sports team, but Philip Knight has been dubbed the “most powerful person in sports” by Sports Illustrated. Worth an estimated $7.1 billion, Knight turned an idea he first penned in a college essay into the largest sportswear supplier in the world. Today, Nike Inc. earns revenues in excess of $15 billion and has become one of the world’s most recognized brands. |
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Managing Organizational Stars
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| What contributes to an individual's ability to remain a star? To what extent does past star performance predicate future star performance? And to what extent does a key organizational factor—colleague quality—help or hinder the ability to sustain star performance? The performance of stars is an important career matter for individuals as well as for managers who want to inspire, nurture, and recruit stars. |
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The Danger Of Celebrity Endorsement
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| Is the endorsement of your product by a showbiz or sports star really worth it? |
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Top 10 Sports And Recreation Franchise Business Opportunities
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| Sure, summer may be over, but you may not realize that sports and recreation businesses are a year round industry that can make great money and be very rewarding for the sports-enthusiast business owner. Here's a look at the 10 best sports and recreation franchises available and a little info explaining what each one is all about. |
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Oil, Water, and Teamwork
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| Did you ever wonder why a professional sports team that seems to have so many outstanding players, never wins the championship? Often times they don’t even make it to the playoffs. Perhaps you live in a city plagued by this team. Frustrating isn’t it? The same malfunction occurs in many businesses today. You have an all star team, but you are getting a sub par performance. Does top management do more refereeing than managing?
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BOOK REVIEW: The Dynamic Path: Access the Secrets of Champions to Achieve Greatness (By James M. Citrin Rodale, 2007 ISBN #978-1-59486-358-5)
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| Drawing from the world of athletics and the success (or not) of superstars in their lives after sports stardom. The major “dynamic path" shift they had to make was to now apply their fame and wealth to something beyond themselves. Sports stars find this especially difficult but so do star individual contributors, professional specialists, salespersons, etc. when they move into a significant leadership role. |
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Live Consultant Thinking: Looking at A Business Coach in the Corporate Strategy
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| In most sports, certainly in most sports businesses, the line-up is similar. You have the owners, the general manager, other managers, the head coach, coaching staff, trainers, scouts and recruiters, ticket sellers, and hopefully a roster of all-star players. This alignment of tasks and talents works well most of the time.
With so many great sports business models to learn from, you wonder why we are slow to acknowledge the important role of coach in general business.
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Leadership Tip: Dream On
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| Remember when you were a kid and the first evening star began to beckon in a slowly dimming sky? Were you the kid who said "star light, star bright, I want the wish I wish tonight?"
Did someone tell you to stop being "so childish" or were you supported in wishing your dream?
It has been said that without vision the people will perish. When we stop looking toward an ideal that we are reaching for the world becomes flat and stale. In all leadership development programs there needs to be a module on keeping dreams alive. |
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If you REALLY want it, I’ll drop my price!
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| I went to the National.
I collect sports memorabilia and the National is the place where everyone who is a serious collector or dealer goes. People fly in from all over the world to buy and sell every kind of sports collectible imaginable. And fifty sports celebrities are there signing autographs (for a fee).
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Sports Art as an Investment
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| Sports art has been around from the beginning, unlike landscape painting as a genre, which came much later. Sports art includes all of the sporting animals. Some of the most beautiful and exciting art is sports art, lots of action, movement and solid technique. |
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