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The Business of Winning

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As an ex-coach of midget sports teams, I identified with the author's approach to developing a winning team. Over the years, my teams and I visualized ourselves as winners, talked about the necessary skills and attitude that it was going to take to reach our goal, worked to develop those skills and concentrated on how each player's strengths played to the team. In The Business of Winning the author demonstrates how he effectively identified, analyzed and documented the achievements he had on the playing field and brought that strategy successfully into the workplace. It is very impressive that he is unselfishly sharing his successful approach with his peers. He is definitely a team player who wants everyone on his team and his company to win. This is a must read for every coach, every parent, and every teacher, as well as every manager.

The correlation between sports and business has always been intriguing to me. I've just been waiting for someone to develop a valid process and quantify the results so I can apply it. Nice work, Good read. The underlying hockey story is compelling.

Mitt Romney was a business man who founded Bain Capital to grow it int a billion dollar fortune. Then he walks away from it al to go to Salt Lake City and take over the U.S. Olympics Committe to save it from going bankrupt and embarassing our country,. The he runs for Governor of Massachussets and promptly institutes guaranteed healthcare for every citizen. He ounsd liberal AND conservative, which is why he can win. And if he does, there'll be a President in the White House who actually told the Boston Herald and states on the myspace page that his favorite books are Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) and The Business of Winning (Robert Evangelista) How cool is that!

This book was like nothing I've read before. A legitmate business book that taught me things I could use tomorrow. But it didn't bore me to death like too many other management books. It was an easy read, is loaded with insight, has a terrific story, and lots of anecdotes about successful coaches and leaders. A good mix.