Business blogs meet baseball blogs

A blog that I read all the time, and is sitting on my blog Resources list, but I rarely mention is Jeff Angus's Management By Baseball.



I'm sure that many of you have seen the title, and skipped over it, thinking it was baseball only in content.



Well, it has baseball, alright.



More importantly, it also has management theory.



In an ingenious blending of professional baseball examples, with real life business problems, Jeff points out how business problems can be solved. The same management issues and dilemmas have already arisen, in the over one hundred years on the baseball diamond, dugout, and management suites.



People are people, whether they are middle managers, assembly line workers, clerical staff, or baseball players. Business management and financial issues crop up in all areas of business, and baseball has experienced them all.



Jeff shows how some solutions, when applied by inferior baseball managers have failed. He also shows how superior managers, like legendary Baltimore Orioles Manager Earl Weaver, succeeded through innovation and recognizing strengths and weaknesses of his personnel.



Don't be turned off by the use of the baseball analogies. They simply serve to illustrate the problem. No more knowledge of how the game is played than three strikes you're out, is required.



What is important, is solving the recurring business management problems, and how the baseball solution can be applied to your business.



After solving the business problems, using the baseball approach, slide into Aaron Gleeman's Aaron's Baseball Blog for some longer posts. In fact, Aaron's tendency to provide columns bordering on novel length has earned his writings the term "Gleeman length articles".



Along with his many page covering posts, mainly on the Minnesota Twins, Aaron also talks about his personal life and his times as a student at the University of Minnesota. For even more "Gleeman length articles", break into a home run trot over to the more purely baseball oriented The Hardball Times.



For a National League approach, take a walk over to J.D. Arney's Reds Daily. J.D.'s main focus is on the Cincinnati Reds, but he throws in many more personal columns too.



Note that both Aaron Gleeman and J.D. Arney are also readers of Blog Business World.



They recognize the combination of business and baseball too.