Chapter 12: Game Time

Following the sales meeting, the buzz kept up for a couple of weeks, but after a month, sales began to slide. Luke knew that he’d made the mistake of charging up the team, but failing to keep the momentum going. He talked to Allison about it and asked her opinion. “Well, I’m not the Coach, and there’s nothing in the Playbook about that. So, I guess you’ll just have to ask yourself ‘What would the Coach do in this situation?’”

Luke’s first thought was that the Coach would not have let the momentum slide in the first place. But that was all water under the bridge now. Then Luke remembered one football game in particular, when he was playing poorly. Luke had not been feeling well for a week before the game, but never said anything ...

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