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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports

Featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi

by Kareem Abdul-JabbarJoe Girardi Alex Ferguson and others
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/04/2018

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The world's elite athletes and coaches achieve high performance through inspiring leadership, strategic choices, and mental toughness. Harvard Business Review has talked to many of them throughout the years to learn how their success can translate to business leadership.

If you read nothing else on management lessons from the world of sports, read these 10 articles by athletes, coaches, and experts in the field. We've combed through Harvard Business Review's archive and selected the articles that will best help you drive your performance whether as an individual contributor or a leader.

This book will inspire you to:

  • Improve your weaknesses, not just your strengths 
  • Hold everyone to high standards especially your stars 
  • Find meaning in success and in challenge 
  • Take care of your body for sustained mental performance
  • Identify the right rivalries to bring out the best in you 
  • Build your team from the bottom up 
  • Understand where the analogy of sports and business doesn't work.

This collection of articles includes

  • "Ferguson's Formula," by Anita Elberse with Sir Alex Ferguson;
  • "Life's Work: An Interview with Greg Louganis"; 
  • "The Making of a Corporate Athlete," by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz; 
  • "The Tough Work of Turning a Team Around," by Bill Parcells; 
  • "How an Olympic Gold Medalist Learned to Perform Under Pressure: An Interview with Alex Gregory";
  • "Mental Preparation Secrets of Top Athletes, Entertainers, and Surgeons," an interview with Daniel McGinn by Sarah Green Carmichael;
  • "SoulCycle's CEO on Sustaining Growth in a Faddish Industry," by Melanie Whelan; 
  • "Life's Work: An Interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar";
  • "Major League Innovation," by Scott D. Anthony; 
  • "Looking Past Performance in Your Star Talent," by Mark de Rond, Adrian Moorhouse, and Matt Rogan; 
  • "Life's Work: An Interview with Mikhail Baryshnikov"; 
  • "How the Best of the Best Get Better and Better," by Graham Jones; 
  • "Life's Work: An Interview with Joe Girardi"; 
  • "Why There Is an I in Team," by Mark de Rond;
  • "Life's Work: An Interview with Andre Agassi"; and 
  • "Why Sports Are a Terrible Metaphor for Business," by Bill Taylor.
ISBN:
9781633694347
9781633694347
Category:
Management: leadership & motivation
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-04-2018
Publisher:
Harvard Business Review Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
160
Dimensions (mm):
209x139mm
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA's all-time leading scorer and a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee. Since retiring, he has been an actor, a basketball coach, and the author of six books for adults and three for children, many of them New York Times bestsellers.

Abdul-Jabbar is also a columnist for TIME magazine, writing on a wide range of subjects including race, politics, age, and pop culture, and his essays and columns have also appeared in the Washington Post, in the Los Angeles Times and on Esquire.com, among other publications.

In 2012, he was selected as a U.S. Cultural Ambassador. He lives in Southern California.

Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson was born in 1941 in Govan, Scotland. A goal-scoring centre-forward, he was later transferred to Rangers, the club he supported from boyhood, for a Scottish record fee of 65,000.

Entering management in 1974, he served East Stirlingshire and St Mirren before guiding Aberdeen to victory in the 1982-83 Cup Winners' Cup. Arriving at Manchester United in 1986, he brought them 38 trophies, including the Club World Cup, two Champions Leagues, 13 Premier Leagues and five FA Cups. His overall haul of 49 trophies made him the most successful British manager of all time.

Knighted in 1999, Sir Alex announced his retirement in 2013, when United were again crowned Premier League champions. At the age of 73, he continues to serve United as a director.

In 2012 Harvard Business School created a case-study based on Sir Alex's managerial career: Sir Alex Ferguson: Managing Manchester United, and Sir Alex is now a Fellow to the Executive Education Program at Harvard.

Sir Alex has published three previous books, the most recent of which, Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography became the fastest selling Non-Fiction hardback since records began, when it was published in 2013.

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