Comments on: What Do Baseball and Toyota Have in Common? http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/04/13/478/ The magazine for the project age Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:20:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Hal http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/04/13/478/comment-page-1/#comment-953 Hal Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:21:19 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/04/13/478/#comment-953 That would be Greg Howell's idea -- moving from baseball to basketball. But the point of Managing by Baseball is that Lou Piniella brings an unusual leadership that is responsible for people playing baseball in a more team fashion. Take a look at the article to see the team statistics. Even a Dane can appreciate increasing "wins" is the point of the game! That would be Greg Howell’s idea — moving from baseball to basketball. But the point of Managing by Baseball is that Lou Piniella brings an unusual leadership that is responsible for people playing baseball in a more team fashion. Take a look at the article to see the team statistics. Even a Dane can appreciate increasing “wins” is the point of the game!

]]> By: Sven Bertelsen http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/04/13/478/comment-page-1/#comment-952 Sven Bertelsen Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:07:58 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/04/13/478/#comment-952 Well, As a Dane I am not that familiar with American sports. However, some years ago Gregg lend me a wonderful book by Robert Keidel comparing sports with management. His point (Keidel) was that baseball was a game between individuals, Football was the game by teams, albeit with very strictly procedures for the team's handling of any foreseeable situation just as a machine, whereas basketball was the real flexible play of teams improvising based on intuition and based on training in handling the unforeseen. Recognizing the complex nature of projects and the loosely coulpled system usually undertaking them, the challenge seems to me (and as far as I remember to Greg) to how to move the group from baseball to basketball? Sven Well,

As a Dane I am not that familiar with American sports. However, some years ago Gregg lend me a wonderful book by Robert Keidel comparing sports with management. His point (Keidel) was that baseball was a game between individuals, Football was the game by teams, albeit with very strictly procedures for the team’s handling of any foreseeable situation just as a machine, whereas basketball was the real flexible play of teams improvising based on intuition and based on training in handling the unforeseen.

Recognizing the complex nature of projects and the loosely coulpled system usually undertaking them, the challenge seems to me (and as far as I remember to Greg) to how to move the group from baseball to basketball?

Sven

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