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Maintenance of a successful professional sports "team" requires careful organisation of many more people than appear on the pitch. This BBC site lists just some of the people involved in preparing a top Rugby
Union team.

This newspaper article about the management style of Arsene Wenger, manager of English Premiership soccer club Arsenal, demonstrates how a management style that focuses on detail need not be accompanied by an authoritarian approach to leadership. Wenger is renowned for treating his players like adults and expecting them to accept personal responsibility, but couples this with intense attention to the tasks that they they need to undertake, and the support they need to undertake them.

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The website businessballs.com contains a wealth of short, punchy definitions, articles, and activities on business topics, many of which are relevant to this chapter. A more conventional source of material is to be found at managementlearning.com; while for in-depth reading and research, the Social Science Information Gateway links to articles, case studies, biographies of management writers, and so on. Especially worthwhile for this chapter are its pages for Organisational Management and Organisational Behaviour.

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For news of Formula 1 see the official Formula 1 website and Planet Formula 1