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
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
Paolo Guenzi
