Interesting interview with him linked on home page
Gist of the 'problem': [which I think he means to equate to the problems in T&F, not just the USA Olympic infrastructure]
1. There is a failure, at least with contemporary leadership, to recognize that this is show business. .. . you have to devise a strategy to embrace the spotlight and to proslytize.
2. The second thing is having a knowledge of what the sports world is all about. . . . It's a business with its own anomalies and its own culture that is not prone at a real high level to allow someone else, despite what the sparkling resume might say, to get involved in the fray until he or she earns their spurs.
3. The third thing shines a light on glaring deficiencies we have of people we have are not conversant with and knowledgeable of doing business on an international basis. I'd want to have somebody who has some level of international credentials, who has that degree of sensitivity.
4. The fourth thing is that I would look for someone who really, truly has an understanding that it is not an inwardly-focused business but an outwardly one. There's got to be a picture window on the world and the sport and whoever it is has to be facile and comfortable with playing that role.
5. I'll throw a fifth thing in. It really helps to have someone who is really a sports fan, someone who really, really loves sports and is passionate about sports in an authentic way. . . . who is at their very root is a sports fan who understands not only the business of sports but the spirit-lifting element of competition at the highest level.
Gist of the 'problem': [which I think he means to equate to the problems in T&F, not just the USA Olympic infrastructure]
1. There is a failure, at least with contemporary leadership, to recognize that this is show business. .. . you have to devise a strategy to embrace the spotlight and to proslytize.
2. The second thing is having a knowledge of what the sports world is all about. . . . It's a business with its own anomalies and its own culture that is not prone at a real high level to allow someone else, despite what the sparkling resume might say, to get involved in the fray until he or she earns their spurs.
3. The third thing shines a light on glaring deficiencies we have of people we have are not conversant with and knowledgeable of doing business on an international basis. I'd want to have somebody who has some level of international credentials, who has that degree of sensitivity.
4. The fourth thing is that I would look for someone who really, truly has an understanding that it is not an inwardly-focused business but an outwardly one. There's got to be a picture window on the world and the sport and whoever it is has to be facile and comfortable with playing that role.
5. I'll throw a fifth thing in. It really helps to have someone who is really a sports fan, someone who really, really loves sports and is passionate about sports in an authentic way. . . . who is at their very root is a sports fan who understands not only the business of sports but the spirit-lifting element of competition at the highest level.
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