Executive Education White Paper
How Can Sport Inspire Managers To Stimulate Collective Intelligence?
With Christophe Inzirillo Senior Fellow at ESCP Business School
With the Rugby World Cup in September 2023 and the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France is hosting two major sporting events.
For this Executive Education white paper, Christophe Inzirillo discusses how the values, know-how and skills from the world of sports could influence our companies.
Though it represents a relatively small economic sector — 2% of global GDP — sport plays a major role internationally in cultural and media terms. It is one of the most powerful cultural forces in the world. And above all, it provides fertile ground for learning about and analysing the sources of performance, as well as our relationship to health, the notion of a team, and rules. It is a mirror of our society.
This intellectual, perceptual, and perhaps, even technological transfer from high-level sport to the corporate world is the central focus of Chistophe Inzirillo’s work and has inspired the notion of fair-play management, which he elaborates in this paper.
This white paper is part of a series entitled “Leaders for the Future”, produced by ESCP Business School Executive Education, that addresses the needs of companies and professionals so that they can thrive in the face of challenges and a rapidly shifting business landscape.
Christophe Inzirillo
Christophe Inzirillo has been an affiliate professor in Leadership and Personal Development at ESCP Business School for over 10 years and a Senior Fellow since June 2022. He is also the co-director of the Sport & Management initiative. He initiated a cultural approach to personal development in companies that is applied to management. In addition, he has experience in the world of sports, having played football in the national division at Endoume-Marseille. His current research focuses on managerial intimacy, the transformation of relationships and the ties between sport, health and safety. Christophe Inzirillo is also the president of his consulting firm. He has been supporting companies in their cultural transformation for over twenty years. He is the co-author of L’Intelligence Sportive au service du Manager (Editions Eyrolles) with Franck Bournois.
