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Article: There's No Crying In Baseball or Business: Will Emotions Ever Be In Style at Work? (Office Style).(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 3, 2001
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In the film, A League of Their Own, Tom Hanks chastised one of his players, and she began to cry. "Are you crying?" asks Hanks. "You can't cry... there's no crying in Baseball!" Yet, baseball and business are emotional games, and feelings are everywhere. Look at the stock market, the dot coms and the dot gones. Feelings abound on Wall Street. The emotions created by a World Series or an P0 are tremendous. The transfer of power as Jack Welch retired from GE created front-page news, and an outpouring of feelings from corporate America. A business can generate as much emotion in its people as a team can generate in it fans.
In reality, however, most leaders try to ...