Gridiron Leadership: Winning Strategies and Breakthrough Tactics by Scott W. Gri

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With its use of football stories, Gridiron Leadership provides a fresh, new approach to capturing and understanding the concepts and practice of leadership, strategy, and execution.

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With its use of football stories, Gridiron Leadership provides a fresh, new approach to capturing and understanding the concepts and practice of leadership, strategy, and execution.Gridiron Leadership: Winning Strategies and Breakthrough Tactics uses real moments from the worlds of professional and college football, as well as a wide range of evocative football metaphors, to dissect the craft of leadership and communicate essential management lessons. With so many leadership and strategy books sending the same messages in the same ways, this fresh approach is truly groundbreaking, using a familiar frame of reference to capture and understand the concepts and practice of leadership, strategy, and execution.The language of sports is already common vernacular among today's successful leaders. Gridiron Leadership uses the accessible, recognizable terminology of sports in a thoughtful, systematic way, making the connection between the culture of football and the kinds of organizational and leadership situations encountered everyday. It covers the full range of modern organizational issues, including human resources, crisis leadership, ethical leadership, strategic decision making, and organizational change. With topics covering everything from building a winning team to analyzing the needs of stakeholders, this is the playbook today's leaders have been waiting for.

Author Biography

Dr. Evan Offstein is a former military intelligence officer.Jason M. Morwick is a former Army officer and graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.Scott W. Griffith, a highly accomplished leader in the field of law enforcement with over 27 years of experience, developed the leadership course entitled "Gridiron Leadership" that used the analogy of sports to teach junior law enforcement leaders the basics of leadership.

Review

Gridiron Leadership: Winning Strategies and Breakthrough Tactics provides a unique look into two areas that many feel passionate about — effective leadership and football. . . . Chances are, after reading this book, the next time you settle in to watch your favorite football team, you will find yourself thinking not only about the game, but about the leadership lessons taking place with each play. * The School Administrator *Sports and business collections alike will relish this. * Midwest Book Review *

Promotional

With its use of football stories, Gridiron Leadership provides a fresh, new approach to capturing and understanding the concepts and practice of leadership, strategy, and execution.

Long Description

Gridiron Leadership: Winning Strategies and Breakthrough Tactics uses real moments from the worlds of professional and college football, as well as a wide range of evocative football metaphors, to dissect the craft of leadership and communicate essential management lessons. With so many leadership and strategy books sending the same messages in the same ways, this fresh approach is truly groundbreaking, using a familiar frame of reference to capture and understand the concepts and practice of leadership, strategy, and execution. The language of sports is already common vernacular among today's successful leaders. Gridiron Leadership uses the accessible, recognizable terminology of sports in a thoughtful, systematic way, making the connection between the culture of football and the kinds of organizational and leadership situations encountered everyday. It covers the full range of modern organizational issues, including human resources, crisis leadership, ethical leadership, strategic decision making, and organizational change. With topics covering everything from building a winning team to analyzing the needs of stakeholders, this is the playbook today's leaders have been waiting for.

Review Quote

"Sports and business collections alike will relish this." - Midwest Book Review

Promotional "Headline"

The game of football demands cohesive teamwork, seamless execution, top performance, and strong leaders and coaches. In other words, it requires just what any successful enterprise needs. Now there is remarkable new book that brings the worlds of sports and management together, teaching essential leadership and strategy lessons through the stories, language, and experience of football.

Description for Reader

* Offers a refreshing new approach to developing leadership skills and building strong organizations * Draws on the familiar world of sports, particularly the language and culture of football, to teach essential management skills * Draws on the collective decades of experience of its authors, including the training course, "Gridiron Leadership," developed by coauthor Scott Griffith

Details ISBN0313378177 Author Jason M. Morwick Short Title GRIDIRON LEADERSHIP Language English ISBN-10 0313378177 ISBN-13 9780313378171 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2009 Subtitle Winning Strategies and Breakthrough Tactics Place of Publication Westport Country of Publication United States Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc Publication Date 2009-08-25 UK Release Date 2009-08-25 NZ Release Date 2009-08-25 US Release Date 2009-08-25 Audience Age 7-17 Pages 220 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc DEWEY 796.332092 Illustrations 4 bw illus Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2009-08-24 We've got this

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