Organizational Change and Football
Football is a business, but different from other businesses in that the heart can play more of a role than the head. Mike Ashley, the chairman of Newcastle United is a successful businessman. But he made many mistakes when he bought the club.
Ashley would never have expanded his Sports Direct empire without exerting due diligence on a takeover, yet he bought Newcastle without properly studying it, only to be shocked by the masses of debt. He would never have installed executives that were incompatible, but this is what he did by employing an old-fashioned manager and then grafting on a continental technical structure, with third parties in charge of development and scouting.
The result? Relegation last season.
What we can learn form this is that when there is a takeover, the resulting organizational change must be carefully and thoughtfully planned.
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