The Chicago White Sox is major league baseball's worst team with 121 losses this season, breaking the record held by the 1962 New York Mets, but Michael Peregrine, a partner with the law firm McDermott Will & Emery, writes that the new record holds leadership lessons on effective oversight, business model management, adaptability and protecting stakeholders. "The White Sox' collapse has not only affected the players and the fans, but also the vendors and service employees around the ballpark whose livelihood depends upon healthy fan support," Peregrine writes.
Put it into practice:Ensuring diverse opinions and investment in the business can alsohelp leaders escape the losing ways personified by the Chicago Whit..., Peregrine writes. "The White Sox have been notorious for their insularity, an unwillingness to hire executives from outside the organization."
What leaders can learn from the White Sox's record losing troubles
by Michael Keany
Oct 1