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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)

by Harvard Business Review, Sir Alex Ferguson, Bill Parcells, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Joe Girardi
January 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
160 pages
3h 33m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Content preview from HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)

The Tough Work of Turning Around a Team

by Bill Parcells

THE PEOPLE IN YOUR COMPANY have little loyalty; some even want you to fail. Your star performers expect constant pampering. Your stockholders are impatient, demanding quick results. And the media scrutinize and second-guess your every move.

I can relate.

As a coach in the NFL, I’ve been in a lot of pressure-cooker situations, and my guess is that the challenges I’ve faced are not all that different from the ones that executives deal with every day. I’m not saying that business is like football. I am saying that people are people, and that the keys to motivating them and getting them to perform to their full potential are pretty much the same whether they’re playing on a football field ...

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