Want to success?...focus on potential! by Zuzana Moravcova

On the example of a successful team of National Football League, The Patriots, the author demonstrated the best strategy to achieve success, no matter whether it applies to football championship or any other sphere of business. If the business leaders want to achieve such sustainable success as The New England Patriots, they should at first take their time to really align their talent to drive their business strategy. Instead, most of them just see talent management as an initiative driven by HR, with only little direct involvement of top leadership and separated from the explicit business requirements. Instead of creating a strategic context, they focus first on individual talent. For instance, instead of hiring football stars, who are expensive for what they have achieved, they focus on less-known players with high potential, which they are planning to develop. The New England Patriots know that talent should be a top priority for their whole leadership team. They separated three key functions -- player selection, coaching and business operations, to emphasise on team over individual. Coordination of separate leadership roles has enhanced the Patriots' operational effectiveness and, well, except for this year's surprising 2nd place at Superbowl, it has led to a long winning streak. Having mentioned all this admirable stuff about the team, I must not ommit a person, who is, to a large degree, responsible for all success!it is their head coach of The New England Patriots. Bill Belichich guided the Patriots to their first league title with a dramatic victory in Super Bowl XXXVI. In the seasons since then, he has directed New England to sustained success. Now, he is in his 33rd season and is the only head coach in NFL history to win three Super Bowl championships in a four-year span. He managed to lead his teams to own all of the major winning streaks in NFL history.

by Zuzana Moravcova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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