On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Juan P. Robertson wrote:
> Sports analogies almost always fall short of adequacy in human business or
> non-profit organizations for the following reasons:
>
> 1. Sports rules are well defined. The environment is circumscribed and
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> 2. Sports teams always play for short terms. Businesses have a 20 or 30
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> 3. Sports teams are limited in the resources they can "field".
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4. Sports teams spend far more time practicing than playing (the same
applies for orchestras and other artistic teams). Businesses treat time
spent on development as a luxury.
--Eric Bohlman <ebohlman@netcom.com>
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