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Leading Teams
Tools and Techniques for Successful Team Leadership from the Sports World

Paolo Guenzi (Author), Dino Ruta (Author)

9781118392096, Wiley

Hardback, published 12 April 2013

352 pages
23.5 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.649 kg

"... its management credentials are impeccable and its thinking well-ordered." (People Management, June 2013)

"Leading Teams is an interesting read and I would recommend it to management executives or anyone supervising a team who wishes to positively encourage and develop their business staff." (PA Life, July 2013)

"Leading Teams is refreshing in that it examines the link between sport and business with a seriousness which shuns the usual team building, away day clich??s." (Communication Director, Nov Dec 2013)

Important new insights on team leadership and motivation, along with powerful tools and techniques taken from the world of sports

How do the sports world's most successful coaches instill their teams with esprit de corps, a collaborative mindset, and an unbeatable desire to win? More importantly, what can business leaders and managers learn from their example? This book answers these and a host of key questions about what it takes to be a successful leader in business or in sports. Drawing upon their unique experiences working with top sports coaches, as well as some of the world's leading corporate executives, authors Dino Ruta and Paolo Guenzi offer important new insights into team leadership and motivation, as well as new tools for optimizing teamwork and inspiring teams to reach for and achieve new heights of glory.

  • Develops a bold new team leadership model for managers at all levels, team leaders, project managers and facilitators, as well as sport coaches
  • Arms you with powerful tools and techniques adapted from the world of sport for optimizing teamwork, driving motivating and instilling an unstoppable desire to win
  • An indispensable source of insight and ideas for executives and managers in companies of all sizes, and an important supplement for postgraduate management programs

Foreword ix

Introduction 1

1 Why Sport and Management? 5

2 Management Models of Team Leadership 39

3 A New Team Leadership Model 75

4 The Team Leader as Manager 99

5 The Team Leader as Coach 171

6 Team Leadership: A Word from the Coaches 243

Carlo Ancelotti 243

Don Casey 248

Sasha Djordjevic 255

John Kirwan 260

Marcello Lippi 265

Roberto Mancini 272

Dan Peterson 278

Simone Pianigiani 284

Cesare Prandelli 289

Arrigo Sacchi 293

Emilio Sánchez 300

Julio Velasco 307

Gianluca Vialli 310

Who’s Who of Sports Coaches 317

Index 331

Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
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