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You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life
Written by Jon Gordon and Mike Smith
Narrated by Jon Gordon and Mike Smith
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NFL head coach Mike Smith lead one of the most remarkable turnarounds in NFL history. In the season prior to his arrival in 2008, the Atlanta Falcons had a 4-12 record and the franchise had never before achieved back-to-back winning seasons. Under Smith's leadership, the Falcons earned an 11-5 record in his first season and would go on to become perennial playoff and Super Bowl contenders earning Smith AP Coach of year in 2008 and voted Coach of Year by his peers in 2008, 2010 and 2012.
You Win in the Locker Room First draws on the extraordinary experiences of Coach Mike Smith and Jon Gordon-consultant to numerous college and professional teams-to explore the seven powerful principles that any business, school, organization, or sports team can adopt to revitalize their organization.
Step by step, the authors outline a strategy for building a thriving organization and provide a practical framework that give leaders the tools they need to create a great culture, lead with the right mindset, create strong relationships, improve teamwork, execute at a higher level, and avoid the pitfalls that sabotage far too many leaders and organizations.
In addition to sharing what went right with the Falcons, Smith also transparently shares what went wrong his last two seasons and provides invaluable lessons leaders can take away from his victories, success, failures and mistakes.
Whether it's an executive leadership team of a Fortune 500 company, a sports team, an emergency room team, military team, or a school team successful leaders coach their team and develop, mentor, encourage, and guide them. This not only improves the team, it improves the leaders and their relationships, connections, and organization.
You Win in the Locker Room First offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at one of the most pressure packed leadership jobs on the planet and what leaders can learn from these experiences in order to build their own winning team.
You Win in the Locker Room First draws on the extraordinary experiences of Coach Mike Smith and Jon Gordon-consultant to numerous college and professional teams-to explore the seven powerful principles that any business, school, organization, or sports team can adopt to revitalize their organization.
Step by step, the authors outline a strategy for building a thriving organization and provide a practical framework that give leaders the tools they need to create a great culture, lead with the right mindset, create strong relationships, improve teamwork, execute at a higher level, and avoid the pitfalls that sabotage far too many leaders and organizations.
In addition to sharing what went right with the Falcons, Smith also transparently shares what went wrong his last two seasons and provides invaluable lessons leaders can take away from his victories, success, failures and mistakes.
Whether it's an executive leadership team of a Fortune 500 company, a sports team, an emergency room team, military team, or a school team successful leaders coach their team and develop, mentor, encourage, and guide them. This not only improves the team, it improves the leaders and their relationships, connections, and organization.
You Win in the Locker Room First offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at one of the most pressure packed leadership jobs on the planet and what leaders can learn from these experiences in order to build their own winning team.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What an incredible book I must buy the physical copy.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome book! Just bought a hard copy of his book The Coffee Bean today. I’ve heard great things about Jon Gordon, and others he works with.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great lessons that can be applied in sports and in life. Recommended read, indeed.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good principles of leadership that are easy to remember and follow. Not as in-depth as other leadership books, making it an easy listen or read. I appreciated Mike Smith’s honesty of his own leadership failures.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Such a great book, read the hard copy and also listened to the audio book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love this it ‘s about Creating Culture on your Team
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing. Really helps being a leader or developing leader for any industry. Even if you don’t have a team now it’s great to apply in all areas of your life.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good book but a little boring if you're not into sports
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As a coach and mentor, I absolutely loved it. Recommend