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World series lessons for managers

Published: 6 November 2011

Before each game in the World Series, the team managers had to present the umpire with a starting batting order, indicating in what sequence the players would come to the plate. On Forbes.com, Karl Moore, a professor at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Desautels Faculty of Management, notes that inherent is a vision of how that lineup might progress during the game, with the lead-off hitter getting on base somehow, being moved ahead by the second batter, and then being driven home by one of the stellar hitters who follow.

The same thinking, he suggests, is needed at the office. Get to know the strengths of your team, through personal meetings with your staff in which you discuss preferences or perceived strengths. Then think through scenarios when assigning work: "In a pitch situation, you should ask yourself, if we win this client, which team members are most capable of delivering the product that the client will expect? Giving different team members different roles can also help stretch them and give some more bench strength."

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