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Posted by Remco on May 14, 2013

28 Rules

We all have experienced Murphy’s Law in our sports organization. You have either a big sport competition, seminar or trip, and a small thing happens, and sets off a whole chain of other problems and obstacles. I personally do not believe in superstition, but I have mentioned “Murphy Law” in the past on numerous occasions. The best way to explain this law is like “Anything that can...

Posted by Remco on Feb 3, 2013

Sports Illustrated winner Kids of the year 2012

I normally don’t pay so much attention to the nomination of the Sports Illustrated prizes of the year, as they normally go to the best playing basketball player, baseball player or other multimillionaire athlete. For last year it seemed to be the same, as Lebron James was named the winner. He didn’t agree though, and said that the brothers Conner and Cayden Long, deserved this title more than...

Posted by admin on Jan 21, 2013

The biggest sportmanagement mistake in small organizations

I am sure that you recognize this: A motivated group of people, most of the time headed by an amateur coach (=passionate sports lover), who runs a sports organization like a club, an after-school program or a community sports project. It always starts with just having fun, and then suddenly you want to enter a competition, travel abroad with your athletes, or perhaps affiliate to a national governing body...

Posted by admin on Jan 10, 2013

Make your goals S.M.A.R.T !

If you are part of a sport organization, you are probably participating in meetings. I want to ask you to analyze the next couple of meetings you attend, and count the number of ideas that are being brought forward. We all have ideas about how the development of our athlete, team, club, association or federation should take place, but one idea is definitely better than the other. Goals often start with...

Posted by admin on Oct 12, 2012

Readers Interview: Nahid Karimi (Iran)

In order to create an online platform to exchange information between our readers, we’ve started with interviews with our readers. They all work in sports, and therefore have experience to share with all of us. Name: Nahid Karimi Country: Iran Function within your sport organization: Project Officer Development for Olympic Solidarity Programs Current...

Posted by admin on Aug 23, 2012

10 Management lessons from the Olympics

During the beginning of August I attended the Olympic Games in London, which were my second Olympics. My first experience were four years ago in Beijing (China), which ended like a nightmare as our best athlete was disqualified on the 200m, and therefore lost his silver medal. After a week he got the medal from the USA runner who didn’t feel that he deserved the medal. If you want to know more about this...

Posted by Remco on Jun 30, 2012

Readers Interview: Martin Gleeson (Cricket)

In order to create an online platform to exchange information between our readers, we’ve started with biweekly interviews with our readers. They all work in sports, and therefore have experience to share with all of us. Name: Martin Gleeson Country: India Function within your sport organization: Chief Executive Officer, Sports Education Development India Ltd. A...

Posted by Remco on Jun 23, 2012

Olympic memories

This Mastermind Sports Management is an online international group of professionals. On a monthly basis they will share their opinion on a certain topic. You can look at the background of each mastermind by going here. June 2012 topic: “Olympic Memories” In a month the Olymic Games will be organized in the city of London. Our members of the Mastermind Sportmanagemetn all have their...