Essays on Basketball Team

Considered by many to be the most successful athlete of all times, Michael Jordan benefited from multiple combining physical and temperamental advantages. They helped him to become a basketball star and then a giant brand name. He was not only extremely talented, but also extremely disciplined, hard-working and competitive, which caused him to be remarked as a future star from high-school. However, as an NBA star, his entertaining playing style, and his extreme drive which caused him to see every match as a life and dead struggle, contributed to the popularity he gained among basketball fans. His unique set ...

Yao Ming

National Basketball Association is a very elite closed society for the best of the best only. NBA is all about the high jumps, three-pointers, dribbling, rebounding, two teams and one winner. However, one pattern distinguishes it from most American professional sports – racial dominance. According to the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports, the NBA in 2015 consisted of 74,4 % black players, 23, 3% white players, 1,8 % Latinos and only 0,2 % of Asians (Lapchik, Guiao). Yao Ming, a boy born in Chinese family of two basketball players. In Shanghai, the biggest city in China he could ...

The strategy explains the idea of how businesses successfully create competitive advantages in the market place. It reflects that battling with the competitors is not a successful tactic to succeed from competitor. Rather a company can succeed in competition by creating a “blue ocean” in the market place that is still uncontested. According to the Mauborgne and Kim, this strategic policy enhanced the value of a business by increasing the values foe employees and customers. They further explain that the strategy helps in exploring the new potential markets. In this way, a business enjoys a monopoly in the newly discovered market, as there are no ...

Movie review Hoosiers

Based on a true story of the Milan High School basketball team that won the state championships in 1954, the movie Hoosiers is a sports film that recounts the story of achievement in a small town basketball team in Indiana High School. The group of underdogs the ‘Hickory Huskers’, was able to become champion under the leadership of a hardworking basketball coach, Norman Dale. From the movie, significant lessons are learned on the importance of effective leadership and management for the successful coordination of groups, organizations and teams. Although Dale faces resentment from within the team and the town, he is still able ...

Management

The past few years have made me realize that an individual has the ability to handle several activities and to learn many new skills within a short duration. Before joining university I worked as a clerk in an insurance company. I had secured the job 8 months earlier through a friend of my parent. The only qualifications I had was a high school certificate and computer literacy. Therefore, needless to say the pay was not that good. However, I worked hard and eventually became accustomed to the norms. After a few months I saved up some money and joined a college where I took some ...

The other night, I was watching an episode of the Showtime series Nurse Jackie. This program details the life of an emergency room nurse who is a drug addict. In the past year, she has had her husband leave her and try to take custody of the children from her because of her habit and has worked hard to keep her life together. In this episode, a young African-American male is in the emergency room because of a car accident. He is unhurt, but he was carrying some drugs in the car with him to take to a party. To avoid any police ...

Human behaviour in organizations integrated

This write up adopts a critical analysis of the theoretical frameworks and models of organizational behavior in different organizations. The paper adopts a critical evaluation of various situations in the organization of companies and a personal experience in basketball. The paper views the case studies of the various companies with a critical approach intended to proffer the points on organizational behavior as per the lectures.

Theoretical models and overview of Organizational behavior

The definition of power and relations in a company or organization has received much acclaim from various scholars and writers of the time. Yang (2001) defines power as a person’s potential to have an effect or impact on another ...

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Like any other activity in life, basketball is a sport that requires not only physical presence but also mental involvement. I see basketball as being a team sport that requires each of the five players in the field to be able to apply their mental capacity to be able to effectively coordinate passes and earn points. As I watch basketball sometimes I have noted that a player should focus on perfecting their strengths and improving on their weak areas. This means that players have special positions that they can play best in the field but good players have to be flexible enough ...

I have been taught since my childhood that it is extremely important to be a team-player, irrespective of the roles and responsibilities. There is a proverb ‘A problem shared is a problem halved; indeed, when a person is working in a team, he is destined to reach success much faster, rather than working on his/ her own. Even though I am a leader inside, as I always set myself clear targets and manage to reach them, I have tries both roles – a leader and a member.

My leadership abilities have been developing since my early childhood. Going to school in China, I managed to reach considerable results ...