Episode Notes

Hey everybody, it's Gene Marks and welcome to this week's episode of The Small Biz Ahead podcast. I've been wanting to talk about this study for a long time. It is one that was actually came out back in 2019, and I wanna report to you something that was written on studyfines.org, S-T-U-D-Y fines.org. That study is about coaches, and it turns out that anger is more effective than positivity when it comes to a coach's halftime speech. Now, let me read this out to you. Researchers at the University of California Berkeley's Haas School of Business, analyzed hundreds of halftime speeches and final scores from high school and college basketball games. And here's what they found. They found that players seemed to perform better after a harsh, more negative halftime speech from the coach. In fact, researchers discovered a significant relationship between the level of negativity a coach projects during a halftime speech and second half scoring outcomes.

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