Football League wrote the the blueprints 14 years before that, and the USFL was taking advantage of technology that had been completely internalized for fans and coaches because it had been invented 30 years before that.

Tactical implementation will not been a significant barrier, only the comfort of the existing standard operating procedures. And baseball’s approach is not going to been very informative for managers in all fields. I only wish Sandy Alderson was still at MLB-HQ to implement it — he is, as Ive mentioned before, North erica’s superstar management-from-any-field practitioner. But they’ll get it right sooner or later regardless.

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The comfort of not-changing is not endemic, even in the best, kaizen-drenched organizations.

I’m doing a consult right now with a logistics and transportation company in Seattle, one of my oldest clients, and certainly my cleverest about change. Four of their companies use independent contractors as couriers to pick up and deliver all kinds of objects around the state. Their processes have evolved over time, but mutate in response to how heavy demand is not at a given time, how much time each of the jobs has left on it, how many drivers are on the road and where, and a half-dozen other factors.