The National Weather Service in Kansas City tweeted this image of their radar after the Royals won the World Series. Photo credit: https://twitter.com/NWSKansasCity

Baseball fans can tell you all the ways that the game is like life.

But Tim Elmore can tell you several ways the game is an incubator for business lessons — especially the way the Kansas City Royals practice it.

On Nov. 2, Elmore blogged about the management lessons the World Series Champions can offer other organizations. The entire post is linked here. Elmore is an author, speaker, and president of Growing Leaders, a nonprofit that helps develop emerging leaders.

A culture of character, hard work and leadership prevails in this organization, from their eight minor league teams all the way through to the major league team we just saw dominate the Houston Astros, Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets in post-season play. As Peter Drucker is quoted as saying: “culture eats strategy for lunch.” It’s not that the Royals had no strategy; on the contrary, they worked their strategy beautifully for years. In fact, it’s because they do not enjoy the luxury of a gigantic budget that they must work a strategy so well. They can’t simply buy an Alex Rodriquez or an Albert Pujols or a Josh Hamilton at the drop of a hat. Their strategy, however, revolved around cultivating a culture that would infect every player and coach in a marvelous way.

Want to learn more? Check out EntreCon Nov. 5-6 in downtown Pensacola. You might not win the World Series, but you just might get to be a business superhero, which is pretty cool in its own right.