Reorganizing Your Organization

32 Thoughts: The Podcast

Sportsnet

Hockey, Sports

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Elliotte are joined by Mike Forde, Executive Chairman at Sportsology — a company that advises sports franchises on talent management and the creation of high-performance cultures. They discuss his scope of work in world sport (particularly in hockey, soccer and basketball), understanding the needs of an ownership group, their process in finding inefficiencies within an organizational structure, and some of the challenges that come with managing expectations in multilingual environments.

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0:00.0	Welcome once again to 32 Thoughts.
0:05.6	The podcast is always a show is brought to you by the all new GMC AT4 lineup and Elliott
0:10.3	today on the podcast.
0:11.3	We will be joined by the executive chairman of sportsology, Mike Ford, someone who very
0:18.2	much behind the scenes in a lot of ways is a pretty influential guy and a really creative
0:24.3	and innovative thinker as well.
0:26.7	A lot of different parts in this conversation that we recorded on Monday morning.
0:31.6	First of all, how did you come across the name Mike Ford initially?
0:36.4	Jeff, the last time New Jersey did its GM search where Tom Fitchell was promoted and
0:41.0	given the full time job, I had heard rumors that they had used some kind of a search
0:47.3	firm or looked for some help and that was partially true.
0:52.1	It wasn't that they in particular hired anyone.
0:55.7	We now know and you'll hear from it in the conversation that the organization is a
1:00.3	whole.
1:01.3	Harris puts her entertainment, which also owns the 76ers.
1:05.0	For example, Crystal Palace, the soccer team over in the Premier League.
1:10.6	For example, they had hired sportsology to just kind of look at their overall business.
1:17.5	I made a note about it and wanted to pursue it.
1:21.2	I just didn't get a chance to really pursue it and act on it at the time.
1:26.5	Now, I was having this conversation this week with someone that how difficult is it do
1:35.0	you think it's going to be to hire now in the NHL?
1:39.2	All of these teams, as they make changes, some of them for hockey reasons and some of
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