There's an article on espn.com where Kobe Bryant criticizes AAU basketball programs and praises European players' skills. "AAU basketball," Bryant said. "Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid." Kobe comes from an era where the basics and the fundamentals mattered. At it's most basic level, basketball is about dribbling, passing, and shooting. At least that's what my 4 year old is learning. What he's NOT learning is how to be on an And 1 Mixtape Tour anytime soon. In the world of business and consulting, Kobe's opinion and point of view also applies. It's easy to get caught up in the hype of a culture, the charisma of a leader, and the cool perks that an o...
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