The Art Of Collaboration
As the business world becomes faster-moving, ultra-aggressive and more unforgiving, no organisation or business is immune to the change. If in the good times organisations got a little flabby and complacent, the tough times have forced them back in to shape. For the best part of almost two decades football has sat isolated in its own ‘bubble’ as the Premier League has gone from strength to strength, but times have changed and the progressive and far-sighted are fully aware that football clubs have to be run with a very different business model than before.
Football and business are now so closely linked and intertwined that it is impossible to separate the two, and when I sat with Sam Allardyce on the panel at the LMA Annual Conference last month, it became increasingly apparent just how similar the roles of business leader and football manager have also become.