Soccer Thinking for Management Success: Lessons for Organizations from the World's Game

Peter Loge, associate professor of media and public affairs, compares today’s successful organizations to soccer. In both, every player is a specialist and generalist; responsibility on the field is distributed; everyone on the team works for everyone else; and communication among players is constant. He draws on insights from both famous and lesser known leaders who use soccer thinking to succeed in an organizational world that, like the sport, is decentralized and never stops moving.