In the business world, sports are often used as analogies for what happens in the marketplace. In one of the most amazing World Cup games in history, Brazil became an object lesson for what happens to an organization that believes that it can rely on history as a substitute for actually playing the game. The methodical way in which the German team took apart the supposedly best team in the world remains a powerful example for what happens when organizations forget the fundamentals.
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