Business is not a sport:

I dislike it when sports teams are held up as models for business teams to copy.  It is ridiculous for business teams to try to be like sports teams and it can be dangerous.  Here’s why.

Sports teams are trained for only one sport.  Team members know exactly which sport they’re playing, how to play it and which rules apply.  How simple.

Sports teams wear uniforms so that you can easily spot the competition.  They also introduce themselves as your competition before each game.  How polite.

Competing teams agree to respect the umpire.  Sports umpires tend to be very visible, very loud and very strict.  How reassuring.

Best of all, sports teams face only one competitor at a time, at a date and place agreed on well in advance.  How convenient.

In business you do not have these luxuries, which is why I think sports teams should study how business teams do it.