Curry will miss the coach-as-educator role, arranging team trips before road games to historic sites like Colonial Williamsburg or parlaying the presidential election into a team lesson on how voting is a fundamental expression of freedom.
Over the three weeks, the competition melts away, and what remains is the core "team" lesson incubated from the beginning.
Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and coauthor, with Jean-François Harvey, assistant professor at HEC Montréal, of Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership (Emerald Publishing Ltd., 2017).
For example, one team applied lessons from Unilever's Shakti program in India to the challenge of creating jobs for the underemployed in southern Europe.
Lessons Learned: Throughout the data collection process, the evaluation team compiled lessons learned, both operational and developmental, emerging from UNICEF's support of CPMRS.
For a father-and-son farming team, the lessons run both ways.
Adapted from "Becoming a Team Player: Lessons from Professional Athletics," first published in the Negotiation newsletter, October 2009.
Earlier this month one of London's Olympic organisers, Lord Dyson, visited Rio to brief its team on "lessons from London".
Adapted from "Becoming a Team Player – Lessons from Professional Athletics" first published in the October 2009 issue of Negotiation.
("Buster plays catcher for the San Francisco Giants baseball team"). Other lessons are of dubious value to more gravity-bound managers.
Scott is trying to prod his team with lessons from his playing days about how much tougher the games become in April and in the playoffs.
