Download or read book From Locker Room to Boardroom written by Ross van Reenen and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 84 per cent of professional rugby players in South Africa are going to find it difficult to survive financially once they stop playing rugby. How will they find success in their new careers once their rugby jerseys have been washed for the last time? From Locker Room to Boardroom explores how former South African rugby players culled certain traits from their playing days and applied them to their enterprises in order to make a successful transition from the rugby field (the locker room) to the business world (the boardroom). Naas Botha, Gary Teichmann, Joel Stransky, François Pienaar, Kevin de Klerk, Breyton Paulse and Kobus Wiese, to name but a few, share the many challenges they faced and the different strategies they employed on the road to establishing the single factor that, more than any other, lies at the root of their business success. Filled with entertaining anecdotes, sound practical advice and pioneering business models, From Locker Room to Boardroom provides a unique and fascinating approach to achieving success in the commercial world.
Download or read book Where Others Won t written by Cody Royle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Bridgewater Associates to Netflix, some of North America's largest companies admit to being heavily influenced by concepts from pro sports. So what do they know that other organizations don't? The answer is simple: people innovation is the new competitive advantage. Through in-depth interviews and meticulous research, Where Others Won't dives deeper than ever before into professional sports from around the world to uncover over 50 easily implementable people strategies to help you win. Whether it's recruitment, leadership, culture or high-performance, sports has been quality-testing people strategies for decades. You'll hear first-hand accounts from executives, coaches and players, including Southampton president Ralph Krueger, former Detroit Pistons president Joe Dumars, former Denver Broncos general manager Ted Sundquist, Utah Jazz coach Igor Kokoskov, former Green Bay Packer Na'il Diggs, former Sunderland and Burnley captain Steven Caldwell, former Richmond leader Daniel Jackson, NCAA soccer coach Gary Curneen, and Paris St-Germain defender Ashley Lawrence. Are you willing to look where others won't?
Download or read book From Locker Room to Boardroom written by Ross Van Reenen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexis Levi Boardroom to the Locker Room written by Alexis Levi and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis Levi: Boardroom To The Locker Room is a rivoting story about the first African American Woman to own a men's professional basketball team. This story is a weave of a thrilling true life story of a modern day hero who risks all to fulfill her passion to live the dream of entering the male dominated industry of professional sports. Read about the struggle not only in her personal life as a "First," in a man's world of fierce competition, and sexist biases. A must read for aspiring, adventures in any industry.
Download or read book Don t Think Pink written by Lisa Johnson and published by AMACOM/American Management Association. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cofounders of ReachWomen--a firm specializing in and advising clients on the behavior of women as consumer--help marketers see their brands through a woman's eyes, unlocking the secrets to developing products, services, and marketing strategies that truly resonate with female buyers.
Download or read book Locker Room to Boardroom written by Eddie Hinton and published by Candle Pub. This book was released on 1987-09-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and multiple careers of the black football player who successfully made the transition from professional sports to the business world.
Download or read book The Coach Approach written by Communications Ink Staff and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Executive Coaching written by Russell Beale and published by Bookpartners. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coaching" has become a popular buzzword in many businesses and professional organizations. Hardly a meeting or conference goes by without some new spin on the concept of coaching. Executive coach and counselor Russell Beale presents key principles, models, and philosophies that establish executive coaching as a unique form of business leadership, and teaches the reader how to enhance persona and professional performance through effective coaching relationships.
Download or read book Big Leadership Ideas written by Paul B. Thornton and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing hockey in high school, prep school and in college, taught author, Paul B. Thornton, valuable life lessons. In addition, it sparked his interest in management and leadership. He studied and observed what the top coaches did that made them successful. This book describes his journey from player to coach to leader. He illustrates the four steps that all leaders must take to make a difference. His "Possibilities Model" provides a clear view of the big dots you need to connect to become a successful leader. As you apply his leadership model, you will gain insights into your leadership strengths as well as areas that may need improving.
Download or read book From The Locker Room to the Boardroom written by Elesa Argent and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the 'sport business metaphor' refers to the extensive use of sport analogies in the corporate sector and represents the way in which positive attitudes to sport are embedded in corporate culture. Whilst positive perceptions of sport have permeated corporate culture in many ways and attitudes towards sport are clearly positive, the concept has never been empirically researched. The purpose of this study was to empirically research the 'sport business metaphor' and provide insight into the values it embodied. The research used a mixed-methods strategy that involved three phases. The first, a systematic review, identified the skills that were perceived to be characteristic of an effective manager. The second used semi-structured interviews with sport coaches and business recruiters to ascertain whether sport was perceived to develop the skills that were identified by the systematic review. The third and final phase used the Multi- Factor Leadership Questionnaire to measure perceptions of leadership in athletes and nonathletes, and reflected findings that leadership was the skill desired most by the corporate sector in the first two phases of research. Findings indicated that the corporate sector, as reflected in the literature and interviews, perceived sport to develop the skills that they perceived as desirable. Significant differences in SELF and OTHERS ratings of perceptions of leadership in athletes and non-athletes further strengthened these findings, by reporting that athletes scored higher in all measures of transformational leadership. These results provided valuable insight into the values that the 'sport business metaphor' embodied.
Download or read book Women on Corporate Boards of Directors written by Ronald J. Burke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both the practitioner and academic communities have voiced strong opinions regarding the progress of women in reaching the executive suite and the corporate boardroom. Proponents on each side of the current debate offer evidence suggesting the accuracy of their respective positions. One view holds: "The fight is over. The battle is won. Women are now accepted as outside directors in the preponderance of corporate boardrooms" (Lear, 1994: 10). An alternative perspective, however, suggests there is much progress left. An illustration of the type of remaining barriers is provided by T. J. Rodgers, chief executive officer (CEO) of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. , who has commented that "a 'woman's view' on how to run our semiconductor company does not help us" (Rodgers, 1996: 14). Regardless of where one falls along the spectrum anchored at one end by the view that women have made substantial progress in reaching the upper echelons of corporations and anchored at the other end by the view that women have barely begun to penetrate the "inner sanctum" of corporations, the central issue is the extent to which women have succeeded in cracking the proverbial "glass ceiling. " The glass ceiling is a metaphorical barrier which prevents women from attaining the upper-most organizational positions (e. g. , Karr, 1991; Morrison, White, Van Velsor, and the Center for Creative Leadership, 1992; Powell & Butterfield, 1994; U. S. Department of Labor, 1991).
Download or read book Linebacker in the Boardroom written by Marvin A. Russell and published by Marvin A. Russell. This book was released on 2011 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to My Impact Zone! My book is not a sports book, nor just a book about leadership, nor only about my time playing Notre Dame football. Linebacker in the Boardroom discusses the demand for excellence and accountability in all things we do. I talk about how those demands translate into lessons in our successes and failures in life. This book has leadership at its foundation. It is a search for our leadership inspirations. It's an examination of and a demand for personal and professional accountability, and shows you how to search for your individual opportunities to make a difference: what I call Impact Zones . To help you search for and define your Impact Zones, I developed 3E Leadership: Essential, Exceptional, and Ethical Leadership(TM) . It's a model for behavioral competencies and tools to help you transform yourself into a high-performer. On the field, in your cube, or in your office, on the factory shop floor, at your school desk, or in the boardroom, you can make an impact. Whether you view this book from a personal or professional perspective, whether you read it as a member of a work team, a community-based organization, athletic team, or religious group, whether you pick it up as the leader of a multi-billion-dollar company or as someone just starting out on your career journey, you will see how my thoughts and inspirations, successes and failures, philosophies and real-life experiences can and will have an impact on you. Welcome to the Impact Zone! Welcome to my world of 3E Leadership(TM)! Become the Essential, Exceptional, and Ethical Leader!
Download or read book The Locker Room written by Damon West and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Explore the power of communication to heal hurt, overcome adversity, and build a unified team In The Locker Room, bestselling author Damon West and player development coach Stephen Mackey team up to explore difficult conversations about eliminating both discrimination and the cancel culture, as well as overcoming adversity. The book tells the story of four characters: two high school football coaches and two players, each of whom must deal with the fallout of an offensive comment that severely disrupts the unity and cohesion of their locker room and threatens to destroy their team. In The Locker Room, you’ll find: A guide to building an inclusive culture The blueprint for using servant leadership and a willingness to listen to break down barriers Encouragement to have the difficult conversations that lie at the heart of modern life Strategies for navigating your personal and professional life in a way that gracefully deals with the realities of prejudice, discrimination, and cancel culture Techniques for giving all people an equal voice and an equal chance at success through learning with humility and teaching with grace An indispensable exploration of some of the most critical and most difficult issues faced by professionals, coaches, athletes, and students today, The Locker Room is a must-read resource that belongs in the libraries of anyone who seeks a life or culture that can not only overcome adversity, but can also use it to reach their goals and improve their communities.
Download or read book Don t Burp in the Boardroom written by Rosalinda Oropeza Randall and published by Familius. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sassy, funny, blunt, and definitely not sugar coated, Don’t Burp in the Boardroom examines etiquette in the workplace, from the warehouse to the top floor. While the outerwear may be different, the dilemmas from cubicle to corner office are the same. Rosalinda Randall delves into common predicaments like food, the break room, social media and electronics, office romances, or how to make a good impression when you’re new on the job. She also delves into the uncommonly common like catching your boss in an unfortunate position and how to avoid that one co-worker who always wants a hug. In today’s modern, fast-paced, crazy lifestyle we think we don’t have time for etiquette. We might believe that it is outdated, irrelevant, or even pretentious. But Don’t Burp in the Boardroom talks about etiquette without mentioning etiquette! How’s that possible? Because Rosalinda defines etiquette as an attitude. What’s yours like?
Download or read book The CCL Handbook of Coaching written by Sharon Ting and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coaching is vital to developing talent in organizations, and it is an essential capability of effective leaders. The CCL Handbook of Coaching is based on a philosophy of leadership development that the Center for Creative Leadership has honed over thirty years with rigorous research and with long, rich experience in the practice of leadership coaching. The book uses a coaching framework to give a compass to leaders who are called to coach as a means of building sustainability and boosting performance in their organizations. The book explores the special considerations that leader coaches need to account for when coaching across differences and in special circumstances, describes advanced coaching techniques, and examines the systemic issues that arise when coaching moves from a one-to-one relationship to a developmental culture that embraces entire organizations.
Download or read book Welcome to the Terrordome The Pain Politics and Promise of Sports written by Dave Zirin and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zirin widens his remit to take a hard look at the trends now shaping sports in the United States and abroad, including an analysis of the 2006 World Cup.
Download or read book America s Game written by Michael MacCambridge and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly managed, keenly marketed sports entertainment colossus whose action is ideally suited to television and whose sensibilities perfectly fit the modern age. America’s Game traces pro football’s grand transformation, from the World War II years, when the NFL was fighting for its very existence, to the turbulent 1980s and 1990s, when labor disputes and off-field scandals shook the game to its core, and up to the sport’s present-day preeminence. A thoroughly entertaining account of the entire universe of professional football, from locker room to boardroom, from playing field to press box, this is an essential book for any fan of America’s favorite sport.
