• Sport Matters

  • Leadership, Power, and the Quest for Respect in Sports
  • By: Kenneth L. Shropshire
  • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
  • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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By: Kenneth L. Shropshire
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
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Publisher's summary

Donald Sterling. Ray Rice. The Washington Redskins. The Miami Dolphins. NCAA athletes. These names, among countless others, have blanketed the headlines as the media has brought global attention to several recent sports controversies. Now Kenneth L. Shropshire, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania professor of legal studies and business ethics and director of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative, uses these stories as a prism for exploring the leadership challenges facing team owners, management, players, and fans.

In Sport Matters: Leadership, Power, and the Quest for Respect in Sports, Shropshire examines the need for diversity, inclusion, respect, and equality in sports, focusing on the need for leadership to embrace and deliver these principles in a real and tangible way within the sports industry. He also introduces the sports power matrix, a framework for understanding power within the sports industry.

Sport Matters addresses what the Donald Sterling drama can teach us about race and the need for inclusion at the ownership level; the lessons learned from the NFL and Ray Rice case; the Washington Redskins' name and the economics of change; what the Miami Dolphins matter tells us about respect in the workplace and beyond; and compensation and equality in amateur sports.

Sport Matters, filled with disturbing revelations and uncomfortable truths, also provides hope, revealing how obstacles to achieving an ideal culture of equality and respect within the sports industry can be removed. Shropshire argues that while change matters, continued emphasis on diversity, inclusion, and respect is needed to create true progress.

Gildan Media is proud to bring you another Wharton Digital Press Audiobook. These notable audiobooks contain essential tools that can be applied to every facet of your career.

©2015 Kenneth L Shropshire (P)2015 Gildan Media LLC

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