How The Little Tough Man Ruled The Giants In The Turkish Basketball League

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24.10.175

Klasifikasi

658.409 2 - Executive leadership

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Case Studies

Subjek

Leadership

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166 kali

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Abstraksi

The teams coached by the successful Turkish basketball coach, Çetin Y?lmaz, had reached the finals of the Turkish Basketball League six times and became champions three times. He assumed the coaching position of the Tuborg basketball team in December 2005. Although Tuborg’s Turkey branch made a serious financial investment in basketball, they were at the bottom of the league in the middle of the season. When Y?lmaz took over the coaching position, the Tuborg basketball team’s main objective was not to be relegated from the top league in the 2005–2006 season. The team, working very hard, overcame the fear of relegation in two?months but still had a very symbolic goal in front of it: winning the most prestigious game of the season by defeating the Kar??yaka team. However, in the last minutes of the game, with the influence of passionate Kar??kaya fans, the Tuborg team got scared and lost the game. At the end of the match, the club president entered the locker room and started shouting at the players, forcing the coach to face a severe dilemma. Either he would remain silent and risk damaging his leading position in the eyes of the players, or he would risk being fired by going against the president, even though he thought the president was right in what he said.