by Daria Steigman on August 12, 2008
This post isn’t about sports stars and their egos. (Clearly both Brett Favre and Manny Ramirez have ego to share.) Actually, Favre gets credit from me for acknowledging that he didn’t handle things so well of late. Neither did his former team.
Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein details lessons learned from how the Boston Red Sox and Green Bay Packers organizations handled their recent star dilemmas. He points out, for example, that the Packers’ mistake:
wasn’t in rejecting the “win-now” mentality of the NFL…[but] in not welcoming Favre back enthusiastically while simultaneously upping the ante on the loyalty issue by asking the veteran to help with transition strategy.
Read Pearlstein’s full column here.
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by Daria Steigman on July 14, 2008
Brett Favre seems to have forgotten that the NFL is a business. And, from a business perspective, he’s quickly developing the wrong kind of reputation.
Favre has made three key business errors:
- He bad-mouthed his employer. It’s not acceptable, and generally not a smart business practice, to trash your bosses. Technically, he let his mom and brother speak for him. That’s even worse.
- He threw his colleague under the bus. Sure, he’s a terrific quarterback, but someone else has his job now. Lobbying to come back to work is one thing, but in the process of trying to reclaim his job he’s essentially trying to “fire” his successor. Does he care at all about Aaron Rodgers?
- Hubris. He seems to think his employer owes his not only a job, but the job someone else took over when he retired.
I love Brett Favre the football player. His passion, his talent, and his exuberance. But I’m not so fond of the way he’s trying to blackmail his former bosses into shoving aside his sucessor.
Favre might yet succeed in forcing the Green Bay Packers hand. But at what cost to his reputation?
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by Daria Steigman on June 18, 2008
Congratulations to the Boston Celtics. The NBA franchise demonstrates what happens when an organization pulls together people with diverse strengths into a cohesive whole. In contrast to the Lakers’ team-built-around-one-main-man, the “Big Three” showed what happens when a core of people share the spotlight in pursuit of a common goal. It’s called teamwork, and there’s a reason we value it in sports, in business, and in life.
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