Team of Destiny


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Thurl Bailey knows what it takes to have a "Championship Mindset". With Thurl in the driver's seat, this book takes readers on a journey that started with a dreamer, Coach Jim Valvano. Jimmy V's ability to manifest his dream through a willing group of young players, culminated into winning the 1983 NCAA Championship against all odds. Sports Illustrated pinned the championship game as, "The greatest upset in sports in the 20th century." Thurl invites you to learn the secret of how you and your team can choose to have that championship mindset. Success does leave clues, and this book challenges you and the rest of today's dreamers to understand the importance of your own unique set of skills to help put you and your team in a position to win!




Debugging Teams


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In the course of their 20+-year engineering careers, authors Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman have picked up a treasure trove of wisdom and anecdotes about how successful teams work together. Their conclusion? Even among people who have spent decades learning the technical side of their jobs, most haven’t really focused on the human component. Learning to collaborate is just as important to success. If you invest in the "soft skills" of your job, you can have a much greater impact for the same amount of effort. The authors share their insights on how to lead a team effectively, navigate an organization, and build a healthy relationship with the users of your software. This is valuable information from two respected software engineers whose popular series of talks—including "Working with Poisonous People"—has attracted hundreds of thousands of followers.




The Final Shot


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This is a phenomenal sports story that happened in a town in Utah that most people cant even pronounce; Tooele, tu:illa. It is a true story about a team of destiny that learned about life, compassion, and athletic achievement. It is a real underdog story, a modern day Hoosiers, a shot HERD round the world. It was a miracle. The message is delivered to us by an underdog comprised of fifteen boys, five assistant coaches, and their head coach. They started out as individuals then worked to become true champions who loved and respected each other. The team was plagued with setbacks and surrounded by an unending array of naysayers and skeptics who defined the impossible. For their head coach it would become a love for his players, his family, his home town, and a battle for life itself.




Team Work


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There are no shortcuts to good leadership and effective teamwork but diagnosing problems is often the first step to improving team performance. Using candid case studies of teams who have implemented Ray's no-nonsense Performance Improvement Program, this book explains how the program can work for all kinds of teams, big or small, sporting or corporate. Anyone who works with other people will gain insight into why things might not be going as well as they could, and how to instigate change. Ray's company, Leading Teams, is the largest and most successful provider of leadership and team alignment programs in Australian sport, with an ever-increasing profile working with businesses, corporations, local government and educational institutions. The client list speaks for itself: it includes AFL clubs Geelong, Hawthorn, Sydney Swans and Adelaide Crows, the Waratahs (Super 14), Melbourne Storm (NRL), Quicksilver, Vodafone, Macquarie Bank, Hyatt group, Queensland Health, Alcoa, IAG, local councils and over 100 Victorian schools.




Racing to Win


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Joe Gibbs is the only coach in history who has won prestigious championships in two world-class sports: NFL's Super Bowl and NASCAR's Winston Cup. A proven winner in motivating himself and others to succeed, the former Washington Redskins coach and current NASCAR team owner reveals the keys to success in Racing to Win. Through fascinating inside stories about stock car racing and football, Gibbs candidly admits his own mistakes and shares the life lessons he's learned. Football and racing fans, as well as anyone interested in balancing work and family responsibilities, will find Racing to Win both a page-turner and a valuable resource filled with practical truths.Victory Is Within Your Reach Strap yourself in for the ride of your life—and start racing to win. Now the only man ever to lead teams to championships in two major sports shares with you his powerful high-octane formula for success. Calling his plays by the bestselling Book of all time, Joe Gibbs tells you what made him a believer—in God, in his team members, and in himself. His incredible story of triumph and defeat in the high-stakes world of professional sports and in life will make you a believer, too.




The Road to No. 1


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Management 102


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This book is about effective management techniques for managers with or without formal training in managing organizations.




Burning Bridges: A Compilation of Works (2nd Ed. )


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A collection of works tied together by the theme of loss, sadness, and searching for truth. Some pieces offer glimpses of hope. Powerful, thought-provoking, and honest, this is a valuable read.




In It to Win It


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Are you a musician? Are you a Christian musician? Are you using your gift in your service to God? Why? Because you feel like? Because it seems the right thing to do? And if you're not, why not? Has God's work kept you very busy for a long time? Are you doing the same old thing the same old way, but don't know how to change? Are you dissatisfied . like there should be more? Are you wondering why you do what you do at all? What's it really all for? Do you feel like it's just too much work? Not enough rewards? Are you thinking of giving it up; doing something else? Do you suffer performance blocks- anxiety attacks, selective memory loss, panic attacks? Have you tried hard to overcome these with little or no success? Read this book. It will open up your mind and raise your understanding of yourself and of what you do. It will give you a once-and-for-all opportunity to change and position yourself to experience continuing inspiration from the Holy Spirit. It will give you the information you need to complete and express your divine ministry. Read it.




Cleveland's Finest


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Cleveland's Finest has in depth, extremely personal interviews with some of the top names in Cleveland sports. Each interview is a no-holds-barred tell-all of the most intimate and sometimes controversial details of the largest impact moments in Cleveland's sports history. This is the first book written from the player's point of view, mixed in with the media that covered it and the fans that watched. This book will change the way the entire sports nation looks at Cleveland. Finally, the true stories are told!