Sports teams as a model for workplace teams: Lessons and liabilities
从运动队中提炼出激励成员和构建团队的七条经验，同时指出不当类比可能带来的四种风险，帮助管理者正确借鉴体育团队的成功模式。
Executive Overview Over the last decade, the management literature has been flooded with books by prominent sports figures, promising to share the secrets of building a winning team. Managers often look to sports for inspirational examples and useful models of teamwork. What exactly can managers learn from sports about leading a high-performance team? The purpose of this article is to help managers derive maximum value from sports-team comparisons. It identifies seven lessons on how to motivate the members of a team and how to structure a team and its work. Managers also need to be aware, however, of the liabilities of drawing on sports references. When used inappropriately, sports comparisons can lead managers and their employees astray. Four critical liabilities are discussed and suggestions are provided for avoiding these risks.