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[email protected] Insights from the leading figures in www.leadersinsport.com sports performance & beyond 04 Autumn Issue Welcome Stephen Dobson Executive Editor Performance Portability of Performance here’s a great book written on talent how that player would fit in and adapt. He called Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent described it as “the art of middle management and the Portability of Performance. It’s – understanding our coaches and our assistant by a Harvard Business School Professor named coaches, who they are, how they thrive and Boris Groysberg, who examined the careers whom they can thrive with before we decide of more than 1,000 star analysts at Wall Street to invest a lot of money acquiring talent”. The investment banks. When these people change result is an insight into the inner workings of organizations they take their skills, networks an NFL franchise – the relationships, the team, and even clients with them. There’s a saying on the organization, the city and everything in Wall Street that goes: “When an analyst moves between. Turn to page 20 to read more about from one firm to another, the only thing that his approach to talent evaluation and changes is the letterhead.” Of all positions, this team building. is the one where performance of new hires should be guaranteed.