Leadership in Business and Sport

Do the leadership and team dynamics of a small sports team really have application to teams in the workplace ?

Lots of material on the Business Source Premier database on this subject. My search strategy, using sports teams and management as subject terms seemed to unearth quite a few results. Admittedly several of the results concentrated on American sports, but can probably be adapted with care.

Issues arising often compared team leaders and team captains as : listeners, communicators, educators, analysts and tacticians.

One of the better sources was a full-text version of this :

Katz, N ( 2001) Sports teams as a model for workplace teams : lessons and liabilities Academy of Management Executive 15 (3) p.56-67 accessed via Business Source Premier [online] library.beds.ac.uk on 18th September 2009