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Cracking the Code: The Winning Ryder Cup Strategy: Make It Work for You

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Outstanding book on leadership & team-building principles. This book has some fun analogies and tells the story of building the winning Ryder Cup strategy. If you play golf you wont be able to put it down, but isn't really a golf story. If you don't play golf the principles still apply on matching up individuals and building teams with those that feed each others strengths, as well as the coach/manager offering the right reinforcement and corrective feedback based on personalities and individuals needs.

Outstanding photos and paper & print quality. Its almost a table top book in the form factor of a easy to handle and easily readable non-fiction book.

You will gain a lot of insight and make you think and respond "better" when it comes to interacting with and leading others. Its an easy read and well worth the time and money.

A very, very good golf book. (Don't let the fact that a clinical therapist is listed as co-author scare you away or cause you to hesitate on buying this book.) This is very much a golf book, and very much Paul Azinger's book. And it is a good one.

Good in the sense that it is about golfers, about people, about the game and the unique strategy that went into winning the Ryder Cup at Valhalla in 2008. This is a golf book and a history book in that it tells a golf story about a moment in golf history that will be remembered a long, long time.

In golf terms, this is book is a definite birdie, thanks in no small part to the good work of Dick Parker and Looking Glass Books in Atlanta.

Lots of good, meaningful color photos to make this book a collector's itemfor all who appreciate golf as it is played and as a sense of history.

P.S. And, as the Americans said at Valhalla, soccer does "suck."

Great, great, laugh-out-loud line in the book. Read it and you will laugh, too.

Loved it, easy to read and a great account of the Ryder Cup victory, a great read for anyone involved in "team projects" does not need to be golf related.

Cracking the Code by 2008 Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger and Dr. Ron Braund tells the story of the 2008 American Ryder Cup team that defeated the European team to win the cup. The focus of the book is more on the way the team was set up and the style Azinger used to organize than it is on the actual golf. Captain Azinger knew that the American teams had not done well in the matches for quite a while, so he came up with new approaches to teambuilding with the help of Dr. Braund. The PGA agreed to several changes in the selection process to decide which players would make the team, and Azinger instituted a pod system for the team with players grouped by personality. His approach was based on some fairly familiar management techniques but was different from what had been tried before. The book does include some good stories about the golf and some excellent photos.

Well worth reading for any golf fan.

I'm amazed that Paul Azinger's unique strategy for choosing and managing the 2008 Ryder Cup team didn't get a ton of publicity right after the matches. It's fascinating stuff! Very timely now that the Ryder Cup is approaching again. A quick and easy read. I normally buy used paperbacks, but this was well worth the extra money.

If you have gone through all the different personality tools, Myers-Briggs, DISC, Social Styles, etc. this is a great story of to how to apply using what is discussed in the traits to a real life situation. If you are a golfer not only can you learn how to apply the tools and bring the Ryder Cup home again!! Great quick read and lots of good info.

It's a great story but it's a simple story and it's almost as if there was not enough content to stretch it out so they added a LOT of gorgeous pictures of the tournament.

I read the entire book in a couple of hours. Its an interesting story of how to use team building tools. It may inspire you to do the same at your organization but you will need to do further research in order to do so.