When to coach - and when not to coach

摘要

Analogies between sports and business have always been made, and sometimes the ease with which they slip into the business argot can oversimplify and distort any kind of objective analysis. The temptation to make such comparisons is easy to understand - concepts like "performance", "results" and "winning" are common in both arenas, and much so-called management-speak utilizes sporting jargon all the time, so that "ballpark figures" arrive "out of left field" with mind-numbing regularity.