– This article aims to draw on analysis of embodied plays in the game of association football to show the central significance of embodied spatial competence.
– The paper is descriptive and theoretical.
– Describes the special skills of unusually talented performers like dancers and midfield soccer players who appear to understand embodied movement in three-dimensions, and considers whether these attributes are transferable to business decision making.
– No original research is reported but suggestions for areas of further study are made.
– If senior managers were able to learn such skills, the practice of strategy formulation and review could be better understood as embodied rather than as embrained.
– Developing strategy as performance could enhance organisational competence.
– These concepts have not previously been applied in organisational analysis.
