What does the World Cup have to do with Business School?

For those of you who followed the Word Cup, the BBC has a great analysis of how management styles and skills can transcend the finance world.

In this article business professors take a look at what soccer team coaches can teach us about management techniques.  Once you’ve gotten your MBA , will you lead like France: closing your team off to the outside world, or like England: encouraging individuality to a breaking point?Ultimately, you may want to emulate Spain’s coach, Vicente del Bosque. According to Santiago Iniguez, the dean of IE Business School in Madrid, “he’s the archetypal cool, calm, cerebral type.”

Bringing the World Cup home to Spain wasn’t a bad show, either.

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By: cclay | 2010/07/13 | MBA info | Trackback | Comments [RSS 2.0]

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  1. David
    Comment by David | 2010/07/14 at 22:24:13

    The Spain’s coach is Vicente del Bosque. Never heard of a Spanish guy with a surname like “Van Bronckhorst” :)

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  2. Caitlin Clay
    Comment by Caitlin Clay | 2010/07/19 at 13:22:39

    My mistake. Giovanni Van Bronckhorst is the captain of the Dutch team. I’ve edited the post above. Thanks for finding it.


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  1. David
    Comment by David | 2010/07/14 at 22:24:13

    The Spain’s coach is Vicente del Bosque. Never heard of a Spanish guy with a surname like “Van Bronckhorst” :)

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    1. Caitlin Clay
      Comment by Caitlin Clay | 2010/07/19 at 13:22:39

      My mistake. Giovanni Van Bronckhorst is the captain of the Dutch team. I’ve edited the post above. Thanks for finding it.

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