Fanatique Demon

Well, seems like there a lot of members who know a lot about football, but little about business/organisations and their culture. I am probably the opposite.

In a few weeks I will be in Japan conducting an exercise with a Fortune 500 company to chart their future success. I have done it many times, in many countries, including with two of the world's top 10 brands. And 80% of the time, it works. When it doesn't work, it's mainly because they don't adopt the thinking.

Here's how I do it in my global consultancy....

I gather a working party of the key stakeholders and we agree on the short and long term Objectives. The working party is usually about 16 people. By involving the key stakeholders in the process, we get buy-in from the beginning.

After that, the working party meets and we do what many of you would probably find silly. In a workshop, we play creative questioning games to understand the current culture and the blocks to success. The games are used so that we get past the stock answers and usual cliches to get to the heart of the problem. Creativity disarms people. Real truths emerge.

Then we define the Brand Positioning and the Culture we want to create in order to achieve the Objectives. I usually craft the Positioning myself and put it back to the working party for comment. Once agreed, the working party defines the Values and Behaviours we will live by. My job is to facilitate and get consensus.

Then having established our Values and Behaviours, we explain them to those affected, but who were not in the working party. We do it in a way that gets total buy-in... handling questions/challenges, using examples, etc. Then we all celebrate them.

From there on, we live by those Values and Behaviours. Those who don't conform are counselled and given another chance.  A second offence says they're not our type... and they're gone.

I understand there will be many skeptics. As I said, I know very little about football, but I do know this stuff. Fortune 500 companies don't waste money on things that don't work. MFC needs to behave like one of them.

Interesting. Thanks for your hard work, Pitmaster.

3 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

Ahh, but you see, we've twisted the system and have created an opening here. Every club was looking to improve in 2019, but we broke with convention.

Now, everyone else has to try to improve all over again, while all we have to do is look to get back to where we already were!

If only it were that simple.

Where we already were won't be good enough if others have improved since 2018. We're in a spot of trouble here.

This might be obvious, but every other team will be looking to improve in 2020. To make the finals, at least one of this year's top 8 would have to drop out and we'd have to improve more than 8 other clubs. Big job. 

Hore... many costly mistakes.

10 hours ago, Swooper1987 said:

6. Gawn - what more can the man do

5. Viney - an outstanding game on Cunnington

4. Fritsch - a super forward game

3. Frost - great work on the probable Coleman medallist - a soft goal from a downfield free and then another as a result of Oliver's 50 m penalty.

2. Lewis - despite his bad turnover near the end still uses the ball better than just about everyone in our team.

1. Oliver - lots of it but lots wasted.

Swooped nailed it!

9 hours ago, Redleg said:

Can we also please get a 3 word player analysis for their season? ?

Here is a thought... why not a THREE WORD PLAYER HOMEWORK for the off season?

E.g., Lever... learn to kick.

And me.

Further to the above... her team always makes the finals and she has many premierships. That's because she only chooses her team from among the preliminary finalists. Last year I convinced her to go with Melbourne. And we all know how that turned out.

As an overseas resident, I can only watch AFL matches with a membership, so I'll sign up again. I could register a  protest by nominating another club. But after 60 years of supporting Melbourne, well, I just couldn't do that.

My wife thinks I am an idiot. I suspect that supporting Melbourne is just one of the reasons.

On those numbers, Lewis ranks 17th best. But in reality he is one of the few with a football brain and good disposal. 

Jones @ 10th is a complete mystery to me.

I think Jennings has already gone. I couldn't see any strategy against the Swans.

Pass

How do you move from the votes offered by posters to the Demonland Count, please? Not challenging... just curious.

6 - Petracca
5 - Fritsch
4 - May
3 - JKH
2 - Lewis
1 - Harmes

.. get May and McDonald back, add a couple of outside runners and a small forward and we'd at least be a chance.

I hope you're right, DeeSpencer. 

6. Gawn

5. Oliver

4. Frisch

3. Harmes 

2. Lewis

1. Hibberd 

I watched the Richmond / Collingwood game on the weekend. It was like watching Melbourne 2018 versus Melbourne 2019. 

Why is the Coaching Alternative vote called a timeline?

How many games have we won with both Wagners in the side?

6. Oliver

5. Frisch 

4. May

3. Salem

2. Lewis

1. Gawn 

Some of Petracca's family must be giving him votes. Or were they people who didn't watch the game?

2 hours ago, P-man said:

Decided to have a look at Tom Hawkins’ average stats in 2010 when he was the same age as Weid is now.

1.2 goals vs 1 goal.

12.6 disposals vs 10.3.

5.7 marks vs 4.2.

1.2 contested marks vs 1.4

The picture paints two very comparable players stats wise. 

Two years later, Hawkins kicked 62 goals and was All Australian.

Some patience needs to be shown with Weid. Surely even his harshest critics can see the glimpses of potential. Let him continue to fill out, build his craft, and let’s see what sort of player we have in a couple of years time. 

Interesting, Pman. And Hawkins had the advantage of being in a much better team. 

Dear P man. "Anyone who thinks this year is a blimp needs their head read."

Blimp: an airship.

Blip: a radar dot, meaning soon forgotten.

13 hours ago, goodoil said:

6. Jack Viney

5. Max Gawn

4. Steven May

3. Christian Salem

2. Christian Petracca

1. Harry Petty

I agrée with Goodoil.

Supreme Demon...  

"James McDonald could of played over 300 games for the Demons and certainly Adem Yze could of too. Cameron Bruce could of played well over 250 games for us and Brad Green could of played another season or two."

If you had written "could have" instead of "could of", you'd have made a really good point.

No offence. Just for credibility's sake.