A BEAUTIFUL LEADERSHIP GAME

摘要

I'm not a big soccer, err... I mean football, fan, except when New Zealand was doing so well in the FIFA World Cup a few years ago and I really could see then it was The Beautiful Game - the skills were astonishing. But, like many of you I am sure, I have been entranced in the last few weeks watching Leicester City's rise and rise against the odds. Somehow we all love to see an underdog doing so well and reading reports of players dropped from the more prestigious football teams to make such a comeback somehow seems to appeal to the Cinderella syndrome we apparently all relate to. So I was very taken with Mark Wagers story (page 4) of his reading of the leadership skills the Leicester City management and owners brought to bear on this fairytale team win. Did you know Leicester City's odds to win were higher than those put on Elvis coming back from the dead?