7: Go for gold: Organizing the Olympics and Paralympics

About this episode

The episode discusses the planning of the Olympic and Paralympic games and the managerial lessons for leaders.

ESSEC Knowledge talks to Stefan Gröschl about what it takes to plan the Olympic and Paralympic games, and the managerial takeaways that all leaders can learn from this process.

People in this episode

Guest: Stefan Gröschl

Topics covered

• Olympics
• Paralympics
• event planning
• management
• leadership

Keywords

• planning
• managerial takeaways
• leadership lessons

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