Article: Summer school for managers.(Sports Biz)(Column)

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT MANAGING PEOPLE WOULDN'T FILL TWO pages of a book, and might not even get me through this column.

But the handful of valuable lessons I've learned about getting individuals to work together in a common cause came from a setting where you won't find a single cubicle or copy of "Microsoft Office" or cup of molding yogurt left behind by the guy in IT who went to work for Oracle.

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Rather, the lessons derived from about 400 square feet of hardened brown dirt backed by patches of barely tended grass and fronted by a latticework of thick fence wire.

A ball field.

This summer marks my ...

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